Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Bribery » Condemned
Your princes [are] rebels and companions of thieves. Every one loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not defend [the] orphan and [the] legal dispute of [the] widow does not come before them.
And you will not take a bribe, because the bribe makes [the] sighted blind and ruins [the] words of [the] righteous.
in whose hands [is] an evil plan, and whose right hand is full of bribes.
The wicked will accept a bribe from the lap, [in order] to pervert the ways of justice.
Those who acquit the guilty because of a bribe and remove [the] justice of [the] innocent from him.
He who walks [in] righteousness and speaks uprightness, who rejects [the] gain of extortion, who {refuses} bribe, who stops up his ears from hearing {bloodshed} and shuts his eyes from seeing evil.
For I know your transgressions [are] many and your sins [are] numerous, [you] foes of [the] righteous, those who take a bribe, and {those who} push aside [the] poor [ones] in the gate!
hands » Of the wicked, described as » Mischievous
in whose hands [is] an evil plan, and whose right hand is full of bribes.
Their hands [are] upon evil, to do [it] well; the official and the judge ask for the bribe, and the great [man] utters the evil desire of his soul; and they weave [it] together.
hands » Right hand, illustrative » (full of bribes,) of corruption
in whose hands [is] an evil plan, and whose right hand is full of bribes.
The Nation » Bribery » Condemned
Your princes [are] rebels and companions of thieves. Every one loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not defend [the] orphan and [the] legal dispute of [the] widow does not come before them.
And you will not take a bribe, because the bribe makes [the] sighted blind and ruins [the] words of [the] righteous.
in whose hands [is] an evil plan, and whose right hand is full of bribes.
The wicked will accept a bribe from the lap, [in order] to pervert the ways of justice.
Those who acquit the guilty because of a bribe and remove [the] justice of [the] innocent from him.
He who walks [in] righteousness and speaks uprightness, who rejects [the] gain of extortion, who {refuses} bribe, who stops up his ears from hearing {bloodshed} and shuts his eyes from seeing evil.
For I know your transgressions [are] many and your sins [are] numerous, [you] foes of [the] righteous, those who take a bribe, and {those who} push aside [the] poor [ones] in the gate!