¹⁹ Listen now to me and I will give you some advice, and may God be with you.^(A) You must be the people’s representative before God and bring their disputes^(B) to him. ²⁰ Teach them his decrees and instructions,^(C) and show them the way they are to live^(D) and how they are to behave.^{(E) 21} But select capable men^(F) from all the people—men who fear^(G) God, trustworthy men who hate dishonest gain^(H)—and appoint them as officials^(I) over thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens.