Charles Ellicott Commentary Luke 18:4

"And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man;" — Luke 18:4 (ASV)

He would not for a while.—The judge was callous and dead to pity, even for that extremest wretchedness. The pleadings of the widow were simply an annoyance, which at first he bore with indifference.

Though I fear not God, nor regard man.—Here, also, there is a graphic touch of intensity. The man had passed beyond the stage of hypocrisy, conscious or unconscious, and saw himself even as others, even as God, saw him.