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

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.

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.

Do not deny justice or show partiality to anyone. Do not accept a bribe, for it blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.

You must not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and corrupts the words of the righteous.

A wicked person secretly takes a bribe to subvert the course of justice.

Again, I observed all the acts of oppression being done under the sun. Look at the tears of those who are oppressed; they have no one to comfort them. Power is with those who oppress them; they have no one to comfort them.

A bribe seems like a magic stone to its owner; wherever he turns, he succeeds.

Here I am. Bring charges against me before the LORD and his anointed: Whose ox or donkey have I taken? Who have I wronged or mistreated? Who gave me a bribe to overlook something? I will return it to you.”

A people you don’t know will eat your land’s produce and everything you have labored for. You will only be oppressed and crushed continually.You will be driven mad by what you see.

You will find no peace among those nations, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despondent spirit.

However, his sons did not walk in his ways— they turned toward dishonest profit, took bribes, and perverted justice.

Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love graft and chase after bribes. They do not defend the rights of the fatherless, and the widow’s case never comes before them.

The one who lives righteously and speaks rightly, who refuses profit from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears from listening to murderous plots and shuts his eyes against evil schemes—