Psalms 82:2

How long will ye judge unjustly, engaging in, performing iniquity in ostensibly carrying out justice, and accept the persons of the wicked, favoring their faces, that is, pervert right and justice in their favor? Selah. Such perversion of justice was common in Oriental courts, where flattering courtiers were admitted to the presence of the sovereign and succeeded in gaining their ends, while others had to be content with remaining outside and having their case decided against them in their absence.