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Verse 1-6

1. If there is anything lovely, if there is anything desirable, if there is anything within the reach of man that is worthy of praise, is it not knowledge? And yet who is it that attains it?
2. The statesman proclaims that he has it. The ruler of the people claim the praise of it - but find the subject that he possess it?

[jk: do you find the subject that possess it?] 3. Evil is not requisite to man; neither can vice be necessary to be tolerated. Yet how many evils are permitted by the connivance of the laws? How many crimes committed by the decree of the council！ 4. But be wise, O ruler and learn, O thou that are to command the nations! One crime authorized by thee is worse than the escape of ten 🔟 from punishment. 5. When the poor are numerous, when thy sons increase about the table. Do not send them to slay the innocent, and to fall before the sword of him whom they have not offended. 6. If the objects of thy desire demanding the lives of a thousand sayeth thou not: “I will have it”. Surely from thou forgetteth that He Who created thee, created also these; and that their blood is as rich as thine.

[jk: ⚠️?]

notes

Notes: chapter 43, verse 1-6

Verse 7-18

1. Sayeth thou, that justice cannot be executed without wrong? Surely thine own words condemn thee.
2. Thou who flattereth with false hopes the criminal that he may confess his guilt, art not thou unto him a criminal? Or art guiltless, because he cannot punish it?
3. When thou commandest to the torture him who is but suspected of ill, dareth thou to remember, that thou mayest rack the innocent?

[jk: rack the innocent?] 4. Is thy purpose answered by the event? Is thy soul satisfied with his confession?

Pain will enforce him to say what is not; as easy as what is, and anguish hath caused innocence to accuse herself [jk: ?].