THEOSISProverbs 17:23Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
The wicked man taketh gifts out of the bosom, that he may pervert the paths of judgment.
שֹׁ֣חַד מֵ֭חֵיק רָשָׁ֣ע יִקָּ֑ח לְ֝הַטּ֗וֹת אָרְח֥וֹת מִשְׁפָּֽט׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Mic 7:3The evil of their hands they call good: the prince requireth, and the judge is for giving: and the great man hath uttered the desire of his soul, and they have troubled it.
- Prov 17:8The expectation of him that expecteth is a most acceptable jewel: whithersoever he turneth himself, he understandeth wisely.
- Deut 16:19And not go aside to either part. Thou shalt not accept person nor gifts: for gifts blind the eyes of the wise, and change the words of the just.
- Ex 23:8Neither shalt thou take bribes, which even blind the wise, and pervert the words of the just.
- Isa 1:23Thy princes are faithless, companions of thieves: they all love bribes, they run after rewards. They judge not for the fatherless: and the widow's cause cometh not in to them.
- Prov 18:16A man's gift enlargeth his way, and maketh him room before princes.
- 1 Sam 8:3And his sons walked not in his ways: but they turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
- 1 Sam 12:3Speak of me before the Lord, and before his anointed, whether I have taken any man's ox, or ass: if I have wronged any man, if I have oppressed any man, if I have taken a bribe at any man's hand: and I will despise it this day, and will restore it to you.