Exodus 5:14

Exo 5:14 And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, [and] demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?

Ver. 14. Were beaten. ] It is the misery of those that are trusted with authority that their inferiors’ faults are beaten upon their backs.