Parallel Verses

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.

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 Do not sweep me away with hardened sinners or my life along with bloodthirsty people. 10 In whose hands is a wicked scheme,
And whose right hand is full of bribes.
11 As for me, I walk in my integrity. Redeem (ransom) (rescue) me, and show me favor.


Cross References

Exodus 23:8

Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe makes the discerning blind to what is right and perverts the words of the righteous.

Deuteronomy 16:19

Never pervert justice. Always be impartial. Never take a bribe, because bribes blind wise people and deny justice to those who are in the right.

1 Samuel 8:3

The sons did not follow their father's example but turned to dishonest ways of making money. They took bribes and denied people justice.

Psalm 10:14

You have seen trouble and grief and placed them under your control. The victim entrusts himself to you. You alone have been the helper of orphans.

Psalm 11:2

Wicked people bend their bows. They set their arrows against the strings to shoot in the dark at people who are upright in heart.

Psalm 36:4

He plans wickedness upon his bed. He walks on a path that is not good. He does not despise evil.

Psalm 52:2

Your tongue makes up wickedness. It is like a sharp razor, you master of deceit.

Psalm 55:9-11

Confuse their language, O Jehovah, because I see violence and conflict in the city.

Proverbs 1:16

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

Proverbs 4:16

They do not sleep unless they have done evil. Their sleep is taken away unless they make someone fall.

Isaiah 33:15

He who walks righteously and speaks what is right, who rejects gain from extortion and keeps his hand from accepting bribes, who stops his ears against plots of murder and shuts his eyes against contemplating evil.

Ezekiel 22:12-13

Some of your people murder for pay. Some charge interest on the loans they make to other Israelites and get rich by taking advantage of them. They have forgotten me. The Lord Jehovah has spoken.

Amos 5:12

I know you have many transgressions and your sins are great. You afflict the righteous. You take bribes. You refuse to help the needy at the gate.

Micah 2:1-3

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning comes they do it because they are able to (it is in the power of their hands).

Micah 7:3

They diligently seek to do evil with their hands. The prince asks and the judge is ready for a bribe. The great man utters his own evil desire. They weave it together.

Matthew 26:3-4

The chief priest and the elders of the people assembled at the court of Caiaphas, the high priest.

Acts 23:12

When day arrived some of the Jews came together and united with an oath saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

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