Exodus 23:1
1 “You must not give a false report. Do not make common cause with the wicked to be a violent6 witness. 2 “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, 3 and you must not show partiality to a poor man in his lawsuit. 4 “If you encounter your enemy’s ox or donkey wandering off, you must by all means return it to him.
Psalm 35:11
9 Then I will rejoice in the Lordand be happy because of his deliverance. 10 With all my strength I will say, “O Lord, who can compare to you?You rescue the oppressed from those who try to overpower them, the oppressed and needy from those who try to rob them.” 11 Violent men perjure themselves, and falsely accuse me. 12 They repay me evil for the good I have done; I am overwhelmed with sorrow. 13 When they were sick, I wore sackcloth, and refrained from eating food. (If I am lying, may my prayers go unanswered.)
Notes and References
"... The violence (חמס) that filled the world in Genesis 6:13 is the destructive deeds that every flesh was doing in Genesis 6:12. The noun חמס as well as its verbal root is also multivalent and used in a few different contexts. It is commonly translated as “violence” and the concept covers various types of violence in Hebrew as well as in English. The violence may be social and hierarchical: done by the noble against the lowly, by the rich against the poor, and by the strong against the weak. In this vein, it may occur in international relations. The mode of violence may be bodily assault, which lead to murder in its severity: e.g., Genesis 49:5–7; Judges 9:24. Yet there are other modes of violence, including economic oppression (e.g., Jeremiah 22:3; Ezekiel 45:9; Amos 3:10), or a false legal witness/accusation (e.g., Exodus 23:1; Deuteronomy 19:16; Psalm 35:11), among others. This wide range of meanings led Stoebe and Cassuto to conclude that חמס is “an encompassing term for sin per se,” i.e., “generally anything that is not righteous” ..."
Bae, Sun Bok Ethics and Morality in the Priestly Law and Narrative (pp. 253-254) The University of Chicago, 2021