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 - New Revised Standard Version The wicked accept a concealed bribe to pervert the ways of justice. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
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 those who give it; wherever they turn they prosper.
A gift in secret averts anger; and a concealed bribe in the bosom, strong wrath.
Surely oppression makes the wise foolish, and a bribe corrupts the heart.
Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not defend the orphan, and the widow's cause does not come before them.
who acquit the guilty for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of their rights!
In you, they take bribes to shed blood; you take both advance interest and accrued interest, and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; and you have forgotten me, says the Lord God.
Its officials within it are like wolves tearing the prey, shedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain.
Its rulers give judgment for a bribe, its priests teach for a price, its prophets give oracles for money; yet they lean upon the Lord and say, “Surely the Lord is with us! No harm shall come upon us.”
Hear this, you rulers of the house of Jacob and chiefs of the house of Israel, who abhor justice and pervert all equity,
Their hands are skilled to do evil; the official and the judge ask for a bribe, and the powerful dictate what they desire; thus they pervert justice.
You must not distort justice; you must not show partiality; and you must not accept bribes, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.
Here I am; testify against me before the Lord and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey 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 against me and I will restore it to you.”
Yet his sons did not follow in his ways, but turned aside after gain; they took bribes and perverted justice.