If they say, Come with us. Let us lay wait for blood. Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.

Do not strive with a man without cause, if he has done thee no harm.

For they do not sleep unless they do evil. And their sleep is taken away unless they cause to fall.

that I may cause those who love me to inherit substance, and that I may fill their treasuries.

For LORD will plead their cause, and despoil of life those who despoil them.

Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause, and deceive not with thy lips.

A righteous man takes knowledge of the cause of the poor. A wicked man has no [such] understanding to know.

Open thy mouth for the mute, in the cause of all such as are left desolate.