“Isaiah continues to describe the scarcity of leadership that faces the Israelites in ancient and latter days, explaining that men will evade leadership and welfare responsibilities for their own family members. They plead, ‘In my house there is neither bread nor clothing; make me not a ruler’ (v. 7). This not only portrays cowardice, but it also underscores an inability to accept moral responsibility because of selfishness or wickedness. As Isaiah describes this people, there are just too many cowardly, self-centered men among them, and thus the whole society suffers” (Ludlow, Unlocking Isaiah, 94–95).