Proverbs 17:23-25

Easy-to-Read Version

²³A wicked judge will accept a bribe, and that keeps justice from being done.

²⁴Intelligent people think about what needs to be done here and now. Fools are always dreaming about faraway places.

²⁵Foolish children upset their parents and make them sad.

Proverbs 17:23-25

New International Version

²³The wicked accept bribes^(A) in secret
to pervert the course of justice.^(B)

²⁴A discerning person keeps wisdom in view,
but a fool’s eyes^(C) wander to the ends of the earth.

²⁵A foolish son brings grief to his father
and bitterness to the mother who bore him.^(D)

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

²⁴Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.

²⁵A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.

Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)

New International Version (NIV)