⁸ Take no rewards in a cause: for rewards make blind those who have eyes to see, and make the decisions of the upright false.

¹⁹ You are not to be moved in your judging by a man's position, you are not to take rewards; for rewards make the eyes of the wise man blind, and the decisions of the upright false.

²³ Who for a reward give support to the cause of the sinner, and who take away the righteousness of the upright from him.

²³ A sinner takes an offering out of his robe, to get a decision for himself in a cause.

²⁷ He whose desires are fixed on profit is a cause of trouble to his family; but he who has no desire for offerings will have life.

⁸ An offering of money is like a stone of great price in the eyes of him who has it: wherever he goes, he does well.

¹⁰ In whose hands are evil designs, and whose right hands take money for judging falsely.

³ And his sons did not go in his ways, but moved by the love of money took rewards, and were not upright in judging.

³ Their hands are made ready to do evil; the ruler makes requests for money, and the judge is looking for a reward; and the great man gives decisions at his pleasure, and the right is twisted.

¹² For I have seen how your evil-doing is increased and how strong are your sins, you troublers of the upright, who take rewards and do wrong to the cause of the poor in the public place.

¹⁸ Their drink has become bitter; they are completely false; her rulers take pleasure in shame.

¹² In you they have taken rewards as the price of blood; you have taken interest and great profits, and you have taken away your neighbours' goods by force, and have not kept me in mind, says the Lord.

¹³ Give me no more false offerings; the smoke of burning flesh is disgusting to me, so are your new moons and Sabbaths and your holy meetings.

⁷ The wise are troubled by the ways of the cruel, and the giving of money is the destruction of the heart.

⁴ Wealth makes a great number of friends; but the poor man is parted from his friend.

³ Here I am: give witness against me before the Lord and before the man on whom he has put the holy oil: whose ox or ass have I taken? to whom have I been untrue? who has been crushed down by me? from whose hand have I taken a price for the blinding of my eyes? I will give it all back to you.

¹⁷ For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, strong in power and greatly to be feared, who has no respect for any man's position and takes no rewards: