Extortion turns a wise person into a fool,
    and a bribe(A) corrupts the heart.

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Surely oppression destroys a wise man’s reason,
(A)And a bribe [a]debases the heart.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 7:7 destroys

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

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