⁸ A bribe is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it;
Whithersoever ^[a]it turneth, ^[b]it ^[c]prospereth.

²³ A wicked man receiveth a bribe out of the bosom,
To pervert the ways of justice.

²¹ An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning;
But the end thereof shall not be blessed.

³ To do righteousness and justice
Is more acceptable to Jehovah than sacrifice.

⁶ The getting of treasures by a lying tongue
Is a vapor driven to and fro by them that seek death.
⁷ The violence of the wicked shall sweep them away,
Because they refuse to do justice.
⁸ The way of him that is laden with guilt is exceeding crooked;
But as for the pure, his work is ^[a]right.

²² Rob not the poor, ^[a]because he is poor;
Neither ^[b]oppress the afflicted in the gate:
²³ For Jehovah will plead their cause,
And despoil of life those that despoil them.

³ A needy man that oppresseth the poor
Is like a sweeping rain ^[a]which leaveth no food.

⁶ Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity,
Than he that is ^[a]perverse in his ways, though he be rich.

⁸ He that augmenteth his substance by interest and increase,
Gathereth it for him that hath pity on the poor.