In those days [there was] no king in Israel, [but] every man did [that which was] right in his own eyes.
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TSK · Judges 21:25
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¶ Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that [were] therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and [there was] no magistrate in the land, that might put [them] to shame in [any] thing; and they [were] far from the Zidonians, and had no business with [any] man.
Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips [are] our own: who [is] lord over us?
¶ There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof [are] the ways of death.
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
¶ Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.