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Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
For the congregation of hypocrites [shall be] desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
In whose hands [is] mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.
They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom.
And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
For the LORD your God [is] God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:
And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
¶ Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?
Thou shalt not follow a multitude to [do] evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest [judgment]:
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: [but] in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
¶ A wicked [man] taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.
Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
So [are] the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:
They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.
For what [is] the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
The good [man] is perished out of the earth: and [there is] none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
¶ Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
Thou hast seen [it]; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite [it] with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, [Is] not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.
And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, and sent [it for] a present to the king of Assyria.
Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do [it]: for [there is] no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.
He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;
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