²¹ To show partiality is not good; Yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.

¹⁹ You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die, and to save the souls alive who should not live, by your lying to my people who listen to lies.

²³ These also are sayings of the wise. To show partiality in judgment is not good.

⁵ To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, Nor to deprive the innocent of justice.

³ In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

¹⁸ For those who are such don't serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

³ Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; And the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

⁵ Thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, "Peace!" and whoever doesn't provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:

¹⁸ Their drink has become sour. They play the prostitute continually. Her rulers dearly love their shameful way.

⁸ You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.

² You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; neither shall you testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice;