Amos 5:12

How blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them; They will not be ashamed When they speak with enemies in the gate.

A bribe is a charm in the eyes of its owner; Wherever he turns, he prospers.

Who cause a person to sin by a word, And ensnare him who reproves at the gate, And defraud the one in the right with meaningless arguments.

“Because you disheartened the righteous with falsehood when I did not cause him grief, but have strengthened the hands of the wicked not to turn from his evil way and preserve his life,

I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me; For now, O Ephraim, you have played the harlot; Israel has defiled itself.

“I will also cut off the judge from her midst And kill all her princes with him,” says Yahweh.

Thus says Yahweh, “For three transgressions of Israel and for four I will not turn back its punishment Because they sell the righteous for money And the needy for a pair of sandals.

“These who pant after the very dust of the earth on the head of the poor Also turn aside the way of the humble; And a man and his father go to the same young woman In order to profane My holy name.

For those who overturn justice into wormwood And put righteousness down to the earth.”

Do horses run on rocks? Or does one plow them with oxen? Yet you have overturned justice into gall And the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,

Hear this, you who trample the needy, even to cause the humble of the land to cease,

Concerning evil, both hands do it well. The prince asks, also the judge, for a payment, And a great man speaks the craving of his soul; So they weave it together.