THEOSISProverbs 17:8Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
The expectation of him that expecteth is a most acceptable jewel: whithersoever he turneth himself, he understandeth wisely.
אֶֽבֶן־חֵ֣ן הַ֭שֹּׁחַד בְּעֵינֵ֣י בְעָלָ֑יו אֶֽל־כָּל־אֲשֶׁ֖ר יִפְנֶ֣ה יַשְׂכִּֽיל׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Ex 23:8Neither shalt thou take bribes, which even blind the wise, and pervert the words of the just.
- Amos 5:12Because I know your manifold crimes, and your grievous sins: enemies of the just, taking bribes, and oppressing the poor in the gate.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1 Sam 25:35And David received at her hand all that she had brought him, and said to her: Go in peace into thy house, behold I have heard thy voice, and honoured thy face.
- 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 21:14A secret present quencheth anger: and a gift in the bosom, the greatest wrath.
- Prov 17:23The wicked man taketh gifts out of the bosom, that he may pervert the paths of judgment.