◄ Micah 6:11 ►
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Good News Translation
How can I forgive those who use false scales and weights?

New Revised Standard Version
Can I tolerate wicked scales and a bag of dishonest weights?

Contemporary English Version
But I, the LORD, will punish you for cheating with weights and with measures.

New American Bible
Shall I acquit crooked scales, bags of false weights?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Shall I justify wicked balances, and the deceitful weights of the bag?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Shall I justify wicked balances, and the deceitful weights of the bag?

count them pure.

Hosea 12:7 He is like Chanaan, there is a deceitful balance in his hand, he hath loved oppression.

the bag.

Proverbs 16:11 Weight and balance are judgments of the Lord: and his work all the weights of the bag.

Context
The Punishment of Israel
…10As yet there is a fire in the house of the wicked, the treasures of iniquity, and a scant measure full of wrath. 11Shall I justify wicked balances, and the deceitful weights of the bag?12By which her rich men were filled with iniquity, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue was deceitful in their mouth.…
Cross References
Leviticus 19:36
Let the balance be just and the weights equal, the bushel just, and the sextary equal. I am the Lord your God, that brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 25:13
Thou shalt not have divers weights in thy bag, a greater and a less:

Proverbs 11:1
Where pride is, there also shall be reproach: but where humility is, there also is wisdom.

Ezekiel 45:10
You shall have just balances, and a just ephi, and a just bate.

Hosea 12:7
He is like Chanaan, there is a deceitful balance in his hand, he hath loved oppression.

Amos 8:5
Hear this, you that crush the poor, and make the needy of the land to fail,

Zechariah 5:8
And he said: This is wickedness. And he cast her into the midst of the vessel, and cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.

Micah 6:10
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