Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

Which in their hands mischief, and their right hand filled with sifts.

New American Standard Bible

In whose hands is a wicked scheme,
And whose right hand is full of bribes.

King James Version

In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.

Holman Bible

in whose hands are evil schemes
and whose right hands are filled with bribes.

International Standard Version

Their hands are filled with wicked schemes, and their right hands with bribes.

A Conservative Version

in whose hands is wickedness, and their right hand is full of bribes.

American Standard Version

In whose hands is wickedness, And their right hand is full of bribes.

Amplified


In whose hands is a wicked scheme,
And whose right hand is full of bribes.

Bible in Basic English

In whose hands are evil designs, and whose right hands take money for judging falsely.

Darby Translation

In whose hands are evil devices, and their right hand is full of bribes.

King James 2000

In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.

Lexham Expanded Bible

in whose hands [is] an evil plan, and whose right hand is full of bribes.

Modern King James verseion

in whose hands is a plot, and their right hand is full of a bribe.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

in whose hands is wickedness, and their righthand is full of gifts.

NET Bible

who are always ready to do wrong or offer a bribe.

New Heart English Bible

in whose hands is wickedness, their right hand is full of bribes.

The Emphasized Bible

In whose hands is a plot, and, their right hand, is filled with a bribe.

Webster

In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.

World English Bible

in whose hands is wickedness, their right hand is full of bribes.

Youngs Literal Translation

In whose hand is a wicked device, And their right hand is full of bribes.

References

Watsons

Context Readings

Prayer For Vindication

9 Thou wilt not gather my soul with the sinning, and my life with men of bloods: 10 Which in their hands mischief, and their right hand filled with sifts. 11 And I, I will go in mine integrity: redeem me and pity me.

Cross References

Exodus 23:8

And thou shalt not take a gift; for the gift will blind the seeing, and will pervert just words.

Deuteronomy 16:19

Thou shalt not turn away Judgment; thou shalt not look upon and thou shalt not take a gift, for the gift will blind the eyes of the wise and will pervert the words of the just.

1 Samuel 8:3

And his sons went not in his way, and they will incline after plunder, and they will take a gift, and they will turn away from judgment.

Psalm 10:14

Thou sawest; for thou wilt look upon trouble and anger, to give with thine hand: the poor will be left to thee; thou wert the helper of the orphan.

Psalm 11:2

For behold, the unjust will bend the bow, they prepared their arrow upon the cord, they will shoot in darkness the upright of heart

Psalm 36:4

He will purpose vanity upon his bed; he will set himself upon a way not good; he will not reject evil

Psalm 52:2

Thy tongue will purpose mischief as a razor being sharpened, working deceit.

Psalm 55:9-11

Swallow up, O Jehovah, divide their tongue: for I saw violence and strife in the city.

Proverbs 1:16

For their feet will run to evil, and they will hasten to pour out blood:

Proverbs 4:16

For they slept not, if they shall not do evil; and their sleep was taken away, if they shall not cause to falter.

Isaiah 33:15

He going in justice and speaking uprightness, rejecting in the plunder of oppression; shaking his hands from holding upon a gift, shutting his ear from the hearing of bloods, and binding up his eyes from looking upon evil;

Ezekiel 22:12-13

They took a gift in thee to pour out blood; thou tookest usury and interest, and thou wilt plunder thy neighbors by violence, and thou didst forget me, says the Lord Jehovah.

Amos 5:12

For I knew your many transgressions, and your strong sins: pressing upon the just, taking a ransom, and they turned away the needy in the gate

Micah 2:1-3

Wo to them purposing vanity, and working evil upon their beds! In the light of the morning they will do it because it is to the strength of their hand.

Micah 7:3

For doing evil with the hands to do well, the chief asking, and the judge, for peace; and the great one, he spake the mischief of his soul: and they will entangle it

Matthew 26:3-4

Then were gathered together the chief priests, and scribes, and the more ancient of the people, into the court-yard of the chief priest, called Caliaphas,

Acts 23:12

And it being day, certain of the Jews having made a condition, anathematized themselves, saying, neither to eat or drink till they kill Paul.

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