PRO 17:23 Parallel Verse View

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Key: khaki:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

BrLXX Λαμβάνοντος δῶρα ἀδίκως ἐν κόλποις οὐ κατευοδοῦνται ὁδοὶ, ἀσεβὴς δὲ ἐκκλίνει ὁδοὺς δικαιοσύνης.
(Lambanontos dōra adikōs en kolpois ou kateuodountai hodoi, asebaʸs de ekklinei hodous dikaiosunaʸs. )

BrTr The ways of a man who unjustly receives gifts in his bosom do not prosper; and an ungodly man perverts the ways of righteousness.

ULT A wicked one takes a bribe from the bosom
⇔ to bend the paths of justice.

BSB ⇔ A wicked man takes a covert bribe [fn]
⇔ to subvert the course of justice.

OEB The wicked accept a bribe
⇔ to deflect the course of justice.

WEBBE A wicked man receives a bribe in secret,
⇔ to pervert the ways of justice.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET A wicked person receives a bribe secretly
⇔ to pervert the ways of justice.

LSV The wicked takes a bribe from the bosom,
To turn aside the paths of judgment.

FBV The wicked take hidden bribes to pervert the course of justice.

T4T ⇔ Wicked people/judges accept bribes that are given to them secretly,
⇔ and as a result they do not decide matters justly/fairly.

LEB • in order to pervert the ways of justice.

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

Moff No Moff PRO book available

JPS A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom, to pervert the ways of justice.

ASV A wicked man receiveth a bribe out of the bosom,
⇔ To pervert the ways of justice.

DRA The wicked man taketh gifts out of the bosom, that he may pervert the paths of judgment.

YLT A bribe from the bosom the wicked taketh, To turn aside the paths of judgment.

Drby A wicked [man] taketh a gift out of the bosom, to pervert the paths of judgment.

RV A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom, to pervert the ways of judgment.

Wbstr A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.

KJB-1769 A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.
(A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgement. )

KJB-1611 A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosome, to peruert the wayes of iudgement.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps The vngodly taketh gyftes out of the bosome, to wrest the wayes of iudgement.
(The ungodly taketh gyftes out of the bosom, to wrest the ways of judgement.)

Gnva A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosome to wrest the wayes of iudgement.
(A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to wrest the ways of judgement. )

Cvdl The vngodly taketh giftes out of the bosome, to wraist the wayes of iudgment.
(The ungodly taketh giftes out of the bosom, to wraist the ways of judgement.)

Wycl A wickid man takith yiftis fro the bosum, to mys turne the pathis of doom.
(A wicked man takith yiftis from the bosom, to mys turn the pathis of doom.)

Luth Der GOttlose nimmt heimlich gern Geschenke, zu beugen den Weg des Rechts.
(The Godlose nimmt heimlich gern Geschenke, to beugen the path the laws.)

ClVg Munera de sinu impius accipit, ut pervertat semitas judicii.
(Munera about sinu impius accipit, as pervertat path yudicii. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / genericnoun

שֹׁ֣חַד מֵ֭⁠חֵיק רָשָׁ֣ע יִקָּ֑ח

bribe from,secret wicked accept

A wicked one, a bribe, and the bosom represent these things and people in general, not specific things or people. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use a more natural expression. Alternate translation: “Any wicked person takes any bribe from any bosom”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

מֵ֭⁠חֵיק

from,secret

Here, from the bosom indicates that a bribe is given to someone secretly, as if it were hidden in a person’s clothes near that person’s bosom. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “in secret”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

לְ֝⁠הַטּ֗וֹת אָרְח֥וֹת מִשְׁפָּֽט

to,pervert ways justice

Here Solomon refers to causing judges to make an unjust verdict as if the legal process had paths that a person could bend. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “to prevent justice from being rendered” or “to prevent judges from giving just verdicts”

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

מִשְׁפָּֽט

justice

See how you translated the abstract noun justice in 1:3.

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