26:10 who are always ready to do wrong 1
or offer a bribe. 2
15:5 He does not charge interest when he lends his money. 3
He does not take bribes to testify against the innocent. 4
The one who lives like this 5 will never be upended.
1 tn Heb “who [have] in their hands evil.”
2 tn Heb “and their right hand is full of a bribe.”
3 sn He does not charge interest. Such an individual is truly generous, and not simply concerned with making a profit.
4 tn Heb “a bribe against the innocent he does not take.” For other texts condemning the practice of a judge or witness taking a bribe, see Exod 23:8; Deut 16:19; 27:25; 1 Sam 8:3; Ezek 22:12; Prov 17:23.
5 tn Heb “does these things.”