The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful.

if a builder builds a house and the house falls and kills some one in the house the owners may kill the builder.

I am old, so give me your peace. Wisdom comes with age.

The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful.

If a man destroys the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye.

If a man has knocked out the teeth of a man of the same rank, his own teeth shall be knocked out.

If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.