Ecclesiastes 10:6
The fool is set in many high places, but the rich sit in lowly places.
Esther 3:1
After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and he exalted him and set {his position} above all the officials who [were] with him.
Proverbs 28:12
When the righteous triumphs, great [is] the glory, but with [the] rising of the wicked, a person will be hidden.
Proverbs 29:2
When the righteous are numerous, the people will rejoice, but when the wicked are ruling, people will groan.
Judges 9:14-20
So all the trees said to the thornbush, 'You, come rule over us.'
1 Kings 12:13-14
Then the king answered all the people harshly, [as] he had rejected the advice of the old men that they had offered.
Psalm 12:8
[The] wicked prowl about when vileness [is] exalted among [the] children of humankind.
Proverbs 28:28
With [the] rising of the wicked, humankind will be hidden, and with their perishing, [the] righteous will multiply.
James 2:3-5
and you look favorably on the one wearing the fine clothing and you say, "Be seated here in a good place," and to the poor person you say, "You stand or be seated there by my footstool,"