Micah 6:10
¶6Are there yet pthe treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the 7*scant measure that is abominable?
¶Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?
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Or, Is there yet unto every man an house of the wicked.
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Leviticus 19:35 ¶Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
Leviticus 19:36 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 25:13-25:16 13. ¶Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small. 14. Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small. 15. But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 16. For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Proverbs 11:1 A FALSE balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
Proverbs 20:10 Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
Proverbs 20:23 Divers weights are an abom-ination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.
Jeremiah 5:27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
Amos 8:5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
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Heb. measure of leanness.
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scant-meagre.
after so many express laws peremptorily forbidding, so many examples of punishments on such, after so many reproofs, menaces, and exhortations by so many prophets, dare you still do so unjustly?
gotten by injurious, oppressive courses, ill-gotten wealth; the wickedness wherewith they raked their wealth together is laid up with their wealth, as the like is said, Jas 5:3.
none have thought of restoring their ill-gotten goods; the wicked fathers, who heaped them together, laid them up in their houses, and the children retain them; the house, i.e. family, of these do as their fathers, store up violence, and so do directly contrary to the first rule, Mic 6:1, to do justly.
which is less than standard; see Amo 8:5; by which these unrighteous ones did both offend against God, and cozen their chapmen.
God abhors such injustice, Pro 11:1 20:10,23 Deu 25:13-16. It is most hateful in his sight.
after so many express laws peremptorily forbidding, so many examples of punishments on such, after so many reproofs, menaces, and exhortations by so many prophets, dare you still do so unjustly?
gotten by injurious, oppressive courses, ill-gotten wealth; the wickedness wherewith they raked their wealth together is laid up with their wealth, as the like is said, Jas 5:3.
none have thought of restoring their ill-gotten goods; the wicked fathers, who heaped them together, laid them up in their houses, and the children retain them; the house, i.e. family, of these do as their fathers, store up violence, and so do directly contrary to the first rule, Mic 6:1, to do justly.
which is less than standard; see Amo 8:5; by which these unrighteous ones did both offend against God, and cozen their chapmen.
God abhors such injustice, Pro 11:1 20:10,23 Deu 25:13-16. It is most hateful in his sight.