New Revised Standard Version
Absalom said moreover, “If only I were judge in the land! Then all who had a suit or cause might come to me, and I would give them justice.”

Contemporary English Version
I wish someone would make me the judge around here! I would be fair to everyone."

New American Bible
And he would continue: “If only I could be appointed judge in the land! Then everyone who has a lawsuit to be decided might come to me and I would render him justice.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
O that they would make me judge over the land, that all that have business might come to me, that I might do them justice.

O that they would make me judge over the land, that all that have business might come to me, that I might do them justice.

Oh that I

Proverbs 25:6 Appear not glorious before the king, and stand not in the place of great men.

Luke 14:9-11 And he that invited thee and him, come and say to thee: Give this man place. And then thou begin with shame to take the lowest place. . . .

I would do

Proverbs 27:2 Let another praise thee, and not thy own mouth: a stranger, and not thy own lips.

2 Peter 2:19 Promising them liberty, whereas they themselves are the slaves of corruption. For by whom a man is overcome, of the same also he is the slave.