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

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.

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

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.

You must never twist justice or show partiality. Never accept a bribe, for bribes blind the eyes of the wise and corrupt the decisions of the godly.

“ Take no bribes, for a bribe makes you ignore something that you clearly see. A bribe makes even a righteous person twist the truth.

The wicked take secret bribes to pervert the course of justice.

Again, I observed all the oppression that takes place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, with no one to comfort them. The oppressors have great power, and their victims are helpless.

A bribe is like a lucky charm; whoever gives one will prosper!

Now testify against me in the presence of the Lord and before his anointed one. Whose ox or donkey have I stolen? Have I ever cheated any of you? Have I ever oppressed you? Have I ever taken a bribe and perverted justice? Tell me and I will make right whatever I have done wrong.”

A foreign nation you have never heard about will eat the crops you worked so hard to grow. You will suffer under constant oppression and harsh treatment.You will go mad because of all the tragedy you see around you.

There among those nations you will find no peace or place to rest. And the Lord will cause your heart to tremble, your eyesight to fail, and your soul to despair.

But they were not like their father, for they were greedy for money. They accepted bribes and perverted justice.

Your leaders are rebels, the companions of thieves. All of them love bribes and demand payoffs, but they refuse to defend the cause of orphans or fight for the rights of widows.

Those who are honest and fair, who refuse to profit by fraud, who stay far away from bribes, who refuse to listen to those who plot murder, who shut their eyes to all enticement to do wrong—