And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the officials, and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.
Proverbs 17:23 - Revised Standard Version A wicked man accepts a bribe from the bosom to pervert the ways of justice. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom To pervert the ways of judgment. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition A wicked man receives a bribe out of the bosom (pocket) to pervert the ways of justice. American Standard Version (1901) A wicked man receiveth a bribe out of the bosom, To pervert the ways of justice. Common English Bible The wicked take secret bribes to twist the way of justice. Catholic Public Domain Version The impious receives gifts from the bosom, so that he may pervert the paths of judgment. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The wicked man taketh gifts out of the bosom, that he may pervert the paths of judgment. |
And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the officials, and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.
A bribe is like a magic stone in the eyes of him who gives it; wherever he turns he prospers.
A gift in secret averts anger; and a bribe in the bosom, strong wrath.
Surely oppression makes the wise man foolish, and a bribe corrupts the mind.
Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Every one loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not defend the fatherless, and the widow's cause does not come to them.
who acquit the guilty for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of his right!
In you men take bribes to shed blood; you take interest and increase and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; and you have forgotten me, says the Lord God.
Her princes in the midst of her are like wolves tearing the prey, shedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain.
Its heads give judgment for a bribe, its priests teach for hire, its prophets divine for money; yet they lean upon the Lord and say, “Is not the Lord in the midst of us? No evil shall come upon us.”
Hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice and pervert all equity,
Their hands are upon what is evil, to do it diligently; the prince and the judge ask for a bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul; thus they weave it together.
You shall not pervert justice; you shall not show partiality; and you shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of the righteous.
Here I am; testify 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 from whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? Testify gainst me and I will restore it to you.”
Yet his sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after gain; they took bribes and perverted justice.