Proverbs 29:4
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Bribes Country Desires Establisheth Exacteth Exacts Full Gifts Gives Greedy Judgment Justice Makes Overthroweth Overthrows Receiveth Receiving Right Ruins Rule Safe Stability Stable Tears Throweth Waste
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Bribes Country Desires Establisheth Exacteth Exacts Full Gifts Gives Greedy Judgment Justice Makes Overthroweth Overthrows Receiveth Receiving Right Ruins Rule Safe Stability Stable Tears Throweth Waste
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English Standard Version
By justice a king builds up the land, but he who exacts gifts tears it down.

New American Standard Bible
The king gives stability to the land by justice, But a man who takes bribes overthrows it.

King James Bible
The king by judgment establisheth the land: but he that receiveth gifts overthroweth it.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
By justice a king brings stability to a land, but a man who demands "contributions" demolishes it.

International Standard Version
A king brings stability to a land through justice, but a man who takes bribes brings it to ruin.

NET Bible
A king brings stability to a land by justice, but one who exacts tribute tears it down.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
The king by judgment establishes the land, and the evil one deprives it.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
By means of justice, a king builds up a country, but a person who confiscates religious contributions tears it down.

King James 2000 Bible
The king by justice establishes the land: but he that receives bribes overthrows it.

American King James Version
The king by judgment establishes the land: but he that receives gifts overthrows it.

American Standard Version
The king by justice establisheth the land; But he that exacteth gifts overthroweth it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A just king setteth up the land: a covetous man shall destroy it.

Darby Bible Translation
A king by just judgment establisheth the land; but he that taketh gifts overthroweth it.

English Revised Version
The king by judgment establisheth the land: but he that exacteth gifts overthroweth it.

Webster's Bible Translation
The king by judgment establisheth the land: but he that receiveth gifts overthroweth it.

World English Bible
The king by justice makes the land stable, but he who takes bribes tears it down.

Young's Literal Translation
A king by judgment establisheth a land, And one receiving gifts throweth it down.
Lexicon
The king
melek  (meh'-lek)
a king -- king, royal.
by judgment
mishpat  (mish-pawt')
a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective
establisheth
`amad  (aw-mad')
to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
the land
'erets  (eh'-rets)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land) -- common, country, earth, field, ground, land, natins, way, + wilderness, world.
but he
'iysh  (eesh)
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
that receiveth gifts
truwmah  (ter-oo-maw')
a present (as offered up), especially in sacrifice or as tribute -- gift, heave offering (shoulder), oblation, offered(-ing).
overthroweth
harac  (haw-ras')
to pull down or in pieces, break, &? destroy -- beat down, break (down, through), destroy, overthrow, pluck down, pull down, ruin, throw down, utterly.
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