5 Grk “lose heart, saying.” This is a continuation of the previous sentence in the Greek text, but a new sentence was started here in the translation by supplying the pronominal subject “He.”
6 Or “town.”
7 The judge here is apparently portrayed as a civil judge who often handled financial cases.
8 Grk “man,” but the singular ἄνθρωπος (anthrōpos) is used as a generic in comparison to God.

In other versions

He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man.

He said: “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought.

“There was a judge in a certain town who didn’t fear God or respect people.

“There was a judge in a certain city,” he said, “who neither feared God nor cared about people.

saying, “There was a certain judge in a certain town who did not fear God and did not respect people.

Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man:

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