“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

You must not offer false testimony against another.

Will there be an end to your windy words? Or what provokes you that you answer?

Indeed, any person who does not behave with humility on this particular day will be cut off from his people.

My God, I cry out during the day, but you do not answer, and during the night my prayers do not let up.

Yet I wait for you, O Lord! You will respond, O Lord, my God!

If you mistreat my daughters or if you take wives besides my daughters, although no one else is with us, realize that God is witness to your actions.”

If you afflict them in any way and they cry to me, I will surely hear their cry,

“You must not follow a crowd in doing evil things; in a lawsuit you must not offer testimony that agrees with a crowd so as to pervert justice,

then the ground will respond to the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil; and they will respond to ‘God Plants’ (Jezreel)!

David called to the army and to Abner son of Ner, “Won’t you answer, Abner?” Abner replied, “Who are you, that you have called to the king?”