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.

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

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.

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.

²³ Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.

¹⁴ By a secret offering wrath is turned away, and the heat of angry feelings by money in the folds of the robe.

⁴ The voice of the Lord is full of power; the voice of the Lord has a noble sound.

¹³ Be lifted up, O Lord, in your strength; so will we make songs in praise of your power.

⁶ His going out is from the end of the heaven, and his circle to the ends of it; there is nothing which is not open to his heat.

¹⁶ He sent from on high, he took me, pulling me out of great waters.

¹ And when David had gone a little way past the top of the slope, Ziba, the servant of Mephibosheth, came to him, with two asses on which were two hundred cakes of bread and a hundred stems of dry grapes and a hundred summer fruits and a skin of wine.

² And David said to Ziba, What is your reason for this? And Ziba said, The asses are for the use of the king's people, and the bread and the fruit are food for the young men; and the wine is for drink for those who are overcome by weariness in the waste land.

³ And the king said, And where is your master's son? And Ziba said, He is still at Jerusalem: for he said, Today Israel will give back to me the kingdom of my father.

⁴ Then the king said to Ziba, Truly everything which was Mephibosheth's is yours. And Ziba said, I give honour to my lord, may I have grace in your eyes, my lord, O king!

³⁵ Then David took from her hands her offering: and he said to her, Go back to your house in peace; see, I have given ear to your voice, and taken your offering with respect.

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.

¹¹ And take twice as much money with you; that is to say, take back the money which was put in your bags, for it may have been an error;

⁹ But Esau said, I have enough; keep what is yours, my brother, for yourself.

¹⁰ And Jacob said, Not so; but if I have grace in your eyes, take them as a sign of my love, for I have seen your face as one may see the face of God, and you have been pleased with me.

¹¹ Take my offering then, with my blessing; for God has been very good to me and I have enough: so at his strong request, he took it.