⁸ The bribe is a stone of magic in the eyes of its owner;^[a]
    everywhere^[b] he will turn, he will prosper.

²³ The wicked will accept a bribe from the lap,
    in order to pervert the ways of justice.

²¹ An inheritance acquired hastily at the beginning^[a]
    will not be blessed at its end.

³ Doing righteousness and justice is more acceptable
    to Yahweh than sacrifice.

⁶ He who makes treasure by a lying tongue
    is a fleeting vapor and seeker^[a] of death.
⁷ The violence of the wicked will sweep them away,
    for they refuse to do justice.
⁸ Crooked is the way of a man and a foreigner,
    but the pure is upright in his conduct.