Ecclesiastes 7:7

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Cross References

Deuteronomy 16:19

And not go aside to either part. Thou shalt not accept person nor gifts: for gifts blind the eyes of the wise, and change the words of the just.

Exodus 23:8

Neither shalt thou take bribes, which even blind the wise, and pervert the words of the just.

Proverbs 17:23

The wicked man taketh gifts out of the bosom, that he may pervert the paths of judgment.

Isaiah 1:23

Thy princes are faithless, companions of thieves: they all love bribes, the run after rewards. They judge not for the fatherless: and the widow's cometh not in to them.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

I turned myself to other things, and I saw the oppressions that are done under the sun, and the tears of the innocent, and they had no comforter; and they were not able to resist their violence, being destitute of help from any.

Proverbs 17:8

The expectation of him that expecteth, is a most acceptable jewel: whithersoever he turneth himself, he understandeth wisely.

1 Samuel 8:3

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

Deuteronomy 28:65

Neither shalt thou be quiet, even in those nations, nor shall there be any rest for the sole of thy foot. For the Lord will give thee a fearful heart, and languishing eyes, and a soul consumed with pensiveness.

Isaiah 33:15

He that walketh in justices and speaketh truth, that casteth away avarice by oppression and shaketh his hands from all bribes, that stoppeth his ears lest he hear blood and shutteth his eyes that he may see no evil.

1 Samuel 12:3

Speak of me before the Lord, and before his anointed, whether I have taken any man's ox, or ass: If I have wronged any man: If I have oppressed any man: If I have taken a bribe at any man's hand: and I will despise it this day, and will restore it to you.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

Moreover there is the king that reigneth over all the land subject to him.

Ecclesiastes 8:9

All these things I have considered, and applied my heart to all the works that are done under the sun. Sometimes one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.

1 Samuel 21:14

And Achis said to his servants: You saw the man was mad. Why have you brought him to me?