Surely extortion maketh the wise man foolish; and a bribe destroyeth the understanding.

勒索使智慧人变为愚妄；贿赂能败坏人的慧心。

勒索使智慧人变为愚妄，贿赂能败坏人的心。

勒索使智慧人变为愚妄，贿赂能败坏人的心。

欺压使智者变愚昧，贿赂败坏人心。

勒索会使智慧人变为愚妄，贿赂能败坏人心。

欺压使智慧人愚妄，贿赂能败坏人的心。

勒索使智慧人變為愚妄；賄賂能敗壞人的慧心。

勒索使智慧人變為愚妄，賄賂能敗壞人的心。

勒索使智慧人變為愚妄，賄賂能敗壞人的心。

欺壓使智者變愚昧，賄賂敗壞人心。

勒索會使智慧人變為愚妄，賄賂能敗壞人心。

勒索之利使智慧人變為狂妄；賄賂禮能毁滅人的心。

欺壓使智慧人愚妄，賄賂能敗壞人的心。

智者勒索、則成為愚、賄賂敗人明哲、

非義之利、使智為狂、惟行賄賂、壞人心術。

暴虐能使智者為狂、賄賂能壞人心術、

Extortion turns a wise person into a fool, and a bribe corrupts the heart.

When a wise person takes wealth by force, they become foolish. It is sinful to take money from people who want special favors.

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

Extortion turns wise people into fools, and bribes corrupt the heart.

Surely, the practice of extortion turns a wise person into a fool, and a bribe corrupts the mind.

For oppression makes a wise person look foolish, And a bribe corrupts the heart.

Surely oppression destroys a wise man’s reason, And a bribe debases the heart.

Surely, the practice of extortion turns a wise person into a fool, and a bribe destroys the mind.

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

Surely oppression can turn a wise person into a fool; likewise, a bribe corrupts the heart.

Surely extortion makes the wise man foolish; and a bribe destroys the understanding.

Thou shalt not wrest justice: thou shalt not respect persons; neither shalt thou take a bribe; for a bribe doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

And thou shalt take no bribe: for a bribe blindeth them that have sight, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

A wicked man receiveth a bribe out of the bosom, To pervert the ways of justice.

Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and, behold, the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

A bribe is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it; Whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.

Here I am: witness against me before Jehovah, 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 of whose hand have I taken a ransom to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.

The fruit of thy ground, and all thy labors, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway;so that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, and there shall be no rest for the sole of thy foot: but Jehovah will give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and pining of soul;

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

Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth bribes, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from taking a bribe, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from looking upon evil: