Ecclesiastes 7:7 - King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.

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Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ Surely oppression and extortion make a wise man foolish, and a bribe destroys the understanding and judgment.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ Surely extortion maketh the wise man foolish; and a bribe destroyeth the understanding.

Common English Bible

⁷ Oppression turns the wise into fools; a bribe corrupts the heart.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ For, like the crackling of thorns burning under a pot, so is the laughter of the foolish. But this, too, is emptiness.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ For as the crackling of thorns burning under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool: now this also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 7:7 পৰস্পৰ সংযোগসমূহ

Deuteronomy 16:19

Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

Exodus 23:8

And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

Proverbs 17:23

A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom To pervert the ways of judgment.

Isaiah 1:23

thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

Proverbs 17:8

A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it: Whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.

1 Samuel 8:3

And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

Deuteronomy 28:65

And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:

Isaiah 33:15

He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;

1 Samuel 12:3

Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.

Ecclesiastes 8:9

All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.

1 Samuel 21:14

Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad: wherefore then have ye brought him to me?