Do not spread false reports. Do not help a guilty person by being a malicious witness.

2 “Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong. When you give testimony in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd, 3 and do not show favoritism to a poor person in a lawsuit.

4 “If you come across your enemy’s ox or donkey wandering off, be sure to return it. 5 If you see the donkey of someone who hates you fallen down under its load, do not leave it there; be sure you help them with it.

6 “Do not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits. 7 Have nothing to do with a false charge and do not put an innocent or honest person to death, for I will not acquit the guilty.

8 “Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the innocent.

9 “Do not oppress a foreigner; you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners, because you were foreigners in Egypt. Exodus 23:1-9

In an interesting twist, one of the laws said not to show favoritism to the poor in a lawsuit, and also not to deny justice to the poor. Essentially it was “give justice but don’t create an injustice to someone else just because they other person is poor.”

The Bible even warns us against favoring the wealthy too just because they’re wealthy. Leviticus 19:15

Injustices are injustices not matter how you look at it.

As long as fallen man is in control of the courts, injustices will occur. It’s an imperfect system with imperfect people.

Pray for justice to be served in the cases you come across. Our judges and justices need wisdom to discern truth in the midst of conflicting evidence.