Focused Passage

Proverbs 17:23

Wisdom in Household Peace, Tested Hearts, Just Speech, and Relational Restraint

The chapter moves through household peace, divine heart-testing, speech and poverty, family honor, bribery and love, rebuke and folly, quarrels and justice, friendship and surety, conflict and grief, crooked justice, wandering folly, and restrained speech.

Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources

23 A wicked man takes a covert bribe to subvert the course of justice.

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Verse 23

Cross-references

Exodus 23:8 Classic cross-references Ecclesiastes 7:7 Classic cross-references Deuteronomy 16:19 Classic cross-references Deuteronomy 27:19 Classic cross-references Micah 7:3 Classic cross-references

Original words

A wicked [man] רָשָׁ֣ע H7563 Adjective - masculine singular takes יִקָּ֑ח H3947 Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular a covert מֵ֭חֵיק H2436 Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct bribe שֹׁ֣חַד H7810 Noun - masculine singular to subvert לְ֝הַטּ֗וֹת H5186 Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct the course אָרְח֥וֹת H734 Noun - common plural construct of justice מִשְׁפָּֽט׃ H4941 Noun - masculine singular

BSB notes

Hebrew a bribe from the bosom

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