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23A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.

Proverbs 17:23

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Matthew Henry

(vv. 23)

See here, 1. What an evil thing bribery is: He is a wicked man that will take a gift to engage him to give a false testimony, verdict, or judgment; when he does it he is ashamed of it, for he takes it, with all the secresy imaginable, out of the bosom where he knows it is laid ready for him; it is industriously concealed, and so slyly that, if h 1a08 e could, he would hide it from his own conscien...

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