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Proverbs 17:23 KJV
Proverbs · chapter 17 · verse 23
A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.Proverbs 17:23 · King James Version
Proverbs 17:23 in context
21He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.
22A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
23A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.
24Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
25A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- pervertnâṭâhto stretch or spread outH5186 →
- wickedrâshâʻmorally wrongH7563 →
- takethlâqachto takeH3947 →
- bosomchêyqthe bosomH2436 →
- giftshachada donationH7810 →
- waysʼôracha well-trodden roadH734 →
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See here, 1. What an evil thing bribery is: He is a wicked man that will take a gift to engage him to give a false testimony, verdict, or judgment; when he does it he is ashamed of it, for he takes it, with all the secresy imaginable, out of the bosom where he knows it is laid ready for him;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary