Parallel Verses

New Heart English Bible

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

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.

Julia Smith Translation

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

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.

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 Do not gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men; 10 in whose hands is wickedness, their right hand is full of bribes. 11 But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me, and be merciful to me.

Cross References

Exodus 23:8

"You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.

Deuteronomy 16:19

You shall not wrest justice: you shall not respect persons; neither shall you take a bribe; for a bribe does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

1 Samuel 8:3

His sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.

Psalm 10:14

But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

Psalm 11:2

For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

Psalm 36:4

He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn't abhor evil.

Psalm 52:2

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Psalm 55:9-11

Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

Proverbs 1:16

for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

Proverbs 4:16

For they do not sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

Isaiah 33:15

He who walks righteously, and speaks blamelessly; He who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil?

Ezekiel 22:12-13

In you have they taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,' says the Lord GOD.

Amos 5:12

For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins?you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the courts.

Micah 2:1-3

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds. When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Micah 7:3

Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

Matthew 26:3-4

Then the chief priests and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.

Acts 23:12

When it was day, the Jews formed a conspiracy, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

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