You shall not follow the crowd in wrongdoing. When you testify in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd.
Cross References
Exodus 23:6You shall not deny justice to the poor in their lawsuits.
Deuteronomy 16:19Do not deny justice or show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.
Deuteronomy 24:17Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow's cloak as security.
Job 31:34because I greatly feared the crowds and the contempt of the clans terrified me, so that I kept silent and would not go outside--
Proverbs 18:5Showing partiality to the wicked is not good, nor is depriving the innocent of justice.
Treasury of Scripture
You shall not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shall you speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
follow
Exodus 32:1-5
And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him…
Genesis 6:12
And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
Genesis 7:1
And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
speak or answer to decline
Exodus 23:6,7
Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause…
Leviticus 19:15
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
Deuteronomy 1:17
Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.
