31 The prophets themselves actually prophesy in falsehood;+ and as for the priests, they go subduing according to their powers.*+ And my own people have loved [it] that way;+ and what will YOU men do in the finale of it?”+

4 Therefore law grows numb, and justice never goes forth.+ Because the wicked one is surrounding the righteous one, for that reason justice goes forth crooked.+

14 LET them be. Blind guides is what they are. If, then, a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”*+

15 “Woe to YOU, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!+ because YOU traverse sea and dry land to make one proselyte,* and when he becomes one YOU make him a subject for* Ge·henʹna* twice as much so as yourselves.