⁸ ·Some people think they can pay others to do anything they ask [^LA bribe is a magic stone in the eyes of those who give it].
·They think it will work every time [^LIt grants success to all who use it].

¹⁸ ·It is not wise to promise
to pay what your neighbor owes [^LA person lacks sense/heart who shakes hands in agreement, who secures a loan for a friend/neighbor].

²³ When the wicked ·accept money to do wrong [take a secret bribe/^Lbribe from the chest/bosom]
·there can be no [it stretches] justice.