15 As for the former governors that were prior to me, they had made it heavy upon the people, and they kept taking from them for bread and wine daily* forty silver shekels.* Also, their attendants themselves domineered over the people.+ As for me, I did not do that way+ on account of the fear of God.+

4 And I myself returned that I might see all the acts of oppression+ that are being done under the sun, and, look! the tears of those being oppressed,+ but they had no comforter;+ and on the side of their oppressors there was power, so that they had no comforter.

4 “Hear this word, YOU cows of Baʹshan,+ who are on the mountain of Sa·marʹi·a,+ who are defrauding the lowly ones,+ who are crushing the poor ones, who are saying to their masters, ‘Do bring, and let us drink!’