⁸ A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it: whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.

¹⁴ A gift in secret pacifieth anger: and a reward in the bosom strong wrath.

²³ A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.

⁸ And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

³ That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

¹² For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

²³ Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

⁴ The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.

¹³ Be thou exalted, Lord, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power.

⁶ His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.