Ecclesiastes 7:7

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

For oppression will make foolish the wise one; and a gift will destroy the heart.

Cross References

Exodus 23:8

And thou shalt not take a gift; for the gift will blind the seeing, and will pervert just words.

Proverbs 17:23

The unjust one will take a gift from the bosom to turn, aside the paths of judgment

Proverbs 17:8

The gift a stone of grace in the, eyes of him possessing it: to all which it shall turn it shall prosper.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

And I turned back, and I shall see all the oppressions which are doing under the sun: and behold, the tears of the oppressed, and none comforting to them; and from the hand of those oppressing them was power, and none comforting to them.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If thou shalt see the oppression of the poor one, and the spoiling of judgment and justice in a province, thou shalt not wonder at the inclination: for the high one above the high one is watching, and the high ones over them.

Ecclesiastes 8:9

All this I saw, and giving my heart to every work which was done under the sun: a time which man had power overman for evil to him.

Isaiah 1:23

Thy chiefs turning away, and associates of thieves: every one loving a gift and following recompenses: the orphan they will not judge, and the cause of the widow will not come to them.

Isaiah 33:15

He going in justice and speaking uprightness, rejecting in the plunder of oppression; shaking his hands from holding upon a gift, shutting his ear from the hearing of bloods, and binding up his eyes from looking upon evil;

Deuteronomy 16:19

Thou shalt not turn away Judgment; thou shalt not look upon and thou shalt not take a gift, for the gift will blind the eyes of the wise and will pervert the words of the just.

Deuteronomy 28:65

And among these nations thou shalt not rest, and there shall not be rest to the sole of thy foot: and Jehovah gave to thee there a trembling heart and a wasting away of the eyes, and a faintnesss of soul.

1 Samuel 12:3

Behold me: answer against me before Jehovah and before his Messiah, whose ox did I take? or whose ass did I take? and whom did I oppress? whom did I vex? and from whose hand did I take a ransom and hidden mine eyes with it? and I will turn back to you.

1 Samuel 21:14

And Achish will say to his servants, Behold, ye will see the man raving: wherefore will ye bring him to me?

1 Samuel 8:3

And his sons went not in his way, and they will incline after plunder, and they will take a gift, and they will turn away from judgment.