Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
Ver. 3. Defend the poor and fatherless] These are God's clients, and this is God's counsel, worthy to be written with letters of gold on the walls of all judicatories, as having in it better direction for a statesman than all Lipsius' beehive or Machiavel's spider web. These two Latin verses are said to be written over the judgment seat in Xante,
Hic locus odit, amat, punit, conservat, honorat,
Nequitiam, pacem; crimina, iura, bonos.