Ecclesiastes 7:7 - 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

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.

English Standard Version 2016

⁷ Surely oppression drives the wise into madness, and a bribe corrupts the heart.

Ecclesiastes 7:7 Tagairtí Cros

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.

Proverbs 17:8

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

1 Samuel 21:14

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

1 Samuel 8:3

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