22 (A)A joyful heart is good medicine,
    but a crushed spirit (B)dries up the bones.
23 The wicked accepts (C)a bribe in secret[a]
    to (D)pervert the ways of justice.
24 (E)The discerning sets his face toward wisdom,
    but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 17:23 Hebrew a bribe from the bosom

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