Surely (A)oppression drives the wise into madness,
    and (B)a bribe corrupts the heart.

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19 (A)You shall not pervert justice. (B)You shall not show partiality, (C)and you shall not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of the righteous.

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(A)And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.

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23 The wicked accepts (A)a bribe in secret[a]
    to (B)pervert the ways of justice.

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Notas al pie

  1. Proverbs 17:23 Hebrew a bribe from the bosom

23 Your princes are rebels
    and companions of thieves.
Everyone (A)loves a bribe
    and runs after gifts.
(B)They do not bring justice to the fatherless,
    and the widow's cause does not come to them.

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Evil Under the Sun

(A)Again I (B)saw all (C)the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had (D)no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power, and there was no one to comfort them.

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(A)A bribe is like a magic[a] stone in the eyes of the one who gives it;
    wherever he turns he prospers.

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Notas al pie

  1. Proverbs 17:8 Or precious

Here I am; testify against me before the Lord and before (A)his anointed. (B)Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or from whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? Testify against me[a] and I will restore it to you.”

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Notas al pie

  1. 1 Samuel 12:3 Septuagint; Hebrew lacks Testify against me

Yet his sons did not walk in his ways (A)but turned aside after gain. (B)They took bribes and perverted justice.

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65 And (A)among these nations you shall find no respite, and there shall be no resting place for the sole of your foot, but (B)the Lord will give you there a trembling heart and failing eyes and (C)a languishing soul.

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33 A nation that you have not known shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually, 34 so that you are driven mad (A)by the sights that your eyes see.

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15 (A)He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly,
    who despises the gain of oppressions,
who shakes his hands, lest they hold a bribe,
    who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed
    (B)and shuts his eyes from looking on evil,

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