Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
A bribe from the bosom the wicked taketh, To turn aside the paths of judgment.
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.
Holman Bible
to subvert the course of justice.
International Standard Version
The wicked man takes a bribe in secret in order to pervert the course of justice.
A Conservative Version
A wicked man receives a bribe out of the bosom, to pervert the ways of justice.
American Standard Version
A wicked man receiveth a bribe out of the bosom, To pervert the ways of justice.
Amplified
A wicked man receives a bribe from the [hidden] pocket
To pervert the ways of justice.
Bible in Basic English
A sinner takes an offering out of his robe, to get a decision for himself in a cause.
Darby Translation
A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom, to pervert the paths of judgment.
Julia Smith Translation
The unjust one will take a gift from the bosom to turn, aside the paths of judgment
King James 2000
A wicked man takes a bribe out of the bosom to pervert the ways of justice.
Lexham Expanded Bible
The wicked will accept a bribe from the lap, [in order] to pervert the ways of justice.
Modern King James verseion
A wicked man takes a bribe out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The ungodly taketh gifts out of the bosom, to wrest the ways of judgment.
NET Bible
A wicked person receives a bribe secretly to pervert the ways of justice.
New Heart English Bible
A wicked man receives a bribe in secret, to pervert the ways of justice.
The Emphasized Bible
A bribe out of his bosom, doth a lawless man take, to pervert the ways of justice.
Webster
A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.
World English Bible
A wicked man receives a bribe in secret, to pervert the ways of justice.
Themes
Presents » Were given » To judges to secure a favorable hearing
Interlinear
Laqach
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 17:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
Proverbs Of Solomon
22 A rejoicing heart doth good to the body, And a smitten spirit drieth the bone. 23 A bribe from the bosom the wicked taketh, To turn aside the paths of judgment. 24 The face of the intelligent is to wisdom, And the eyes of a fool -- at the end of the earth.
Cross References
Exodus 23:8
And a bribe thou dost not take; for the bribe bindeth the open -eyed, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
Proverbs 17:8
A stone of grace is the bribe in the eyes of its possessors, Whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.
Micah 7:3
On the evil are both hands to do it well, The prince is asking -- also the judge -- for recompence, And the great -- he is speaking the mischief of his soul, And they wrap it up.
Deuteronomy 16:19
Thou dost not turn aside judgment; thou dost not discern faces, nor take a bribe, for the bribe blindeth the eyes of the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
1 Samuel 8:3
and his sons have not walked in his ways, and turn aside after the dishonest gain, and take a bribe, and turn aside judgment.
1 Samuel 12:3
Lo, here am I; testify against me, over-against Jehovah, and over-against His anointed; whose ox have I taken, and whose ass have I taken, and whom have I oppressed; whom have I bruised, and of whose hand have I taken a ransom, and hide mine eyes with it? -- and I restore to you.'
Proverbs 18:16
The gift of a man maketh room for him, And before the great it leadeth him.
Proverbs 21:14
A gift in secret pacifieth anger, And a bribe in the bosom strong fury.
Isaiah 1:23
Thy princes are apostates, and companions of thieves, Every one loving a bribe, and pursuing rewards, The fatherless they judge not, And the plea of the widow cometh not to them.
Ezekiel 22:12
A bribe they have taken in thee to shed blood, Usury and increase thou hast taken, And cuttest off thy neighbour by oppression, And Me thou hast forgotten, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!
Micah 3:11
Her heads for a bribe do judge, And her priests for hire do teach, And her prophets for silver divine, And on Jehovah they lean, saying, 'Is not Jehovah in our midst? Evil doth not come in upon us.'
Mark 14:10-11
And Judas the Iscariot, one of the twelve, went away unto the chief priests that he might deliver him up to them,