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Hosea 12:7
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A merchant loves to extortwith dishonest scales in his hands.
A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.
He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
A merchant, in whose hands are false balances, he loves to oppress.
A merchant, in whose hands are fraudulent balances, Loves to exploit.
The merchants use dishonest scales; they like to cheat people.
A merchant, in whose hand are false and fraudulent balances; He loves to oppress and exploit.
He is Canaan: the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loueth to oppresse.
A merchant, in whose hands are false balances, He loves to oppress.
A merchant, in whose hands are deceptive balances,He loves to oppress.
A merchant loves to defraud with dishonest scales in his hands.
Israel, you enjoy cheating and taking advantage of others.
So you, return to your God; hold fast to grace and justice; and always put your hope in your God.
[He is] a merchant, balances of deceit are in his hand; he loveth to oppress.
"Jacob is a tricky merchant. He even cheats his friend! Even his scales lie.
The balances of deceit are in the hand of Canaan, he loves to oppress.
The Lord says, "The people of Israel are as dishonest as the Canaanites; they love to cheat their customers with false scales.
The trader, in his hand are scales of deceit; he loves to oppress.
He is a merchant; the scales of deceit are in his hand; he loves to oppress.
He is a trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
As for Canaan, the scales of deceit are in his hands; he takes pleasure in twisted ways.
Therefore turn thou to thy God; keep mercy and justice, and wait for thy God continually.
He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: hee loueth to oppresse.
[He is] Chanaan, the ballaunces of deceipt are in his hande, he loueth to oppresse.
As for Chanaan, in his hand is a balance of unrighteousness: he has loved to tyrannize.
He is a trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.
[He is] a trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loves to oppress.
[He is] a merchant, the balances of deceit [are] in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
The businessmen love to cheat; they use dishonest scales.
"A cunning Canaanite! Deceitful scales are in his hand; He loves to oppress.
But no, the people are like crafty merchants selling from dishonest scales— they love to cheat.
One who buys and sells and who lies about the weight of things loves to make it hard for others.
A trader, in whose hands are false balances, he loves to oppress.
A trafficker! in his hand, are balances of deceit, to oppress, he loveth.
He is like Chanaan, there is a deceitful balance in his hand, he hath loved oppression.
A trader, in whose hands are false balances, he loves to oppress.
Canaan! in his hand [are] balances of deceit! To oppress he hath loved.
But the marchaunt hath a false weight in his honde, he hath a pleasure to occupie extorcion.
The businessmen engage in wholesale fraud. They love to rip people off! Ephraim boasted, "Look, I'm rich! I've made it big! And look how well I've covered my tracks: not a hint of fraud, not a sign of sin!"
Contextual Overview
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a merchant: or, Canaan, Ezekiel 16:3, Zechariah 14:21, John 2:16
the balances: Leviticus 19:35, Leviticus 19:36, Proverbs 11:1, Proverbs 16:11, Amos 8:5, Amos 8:6, Micah 6:10, Micah 6:11, 1 Timothy 6:9, 1 Timothy 6:10
he loveth: Isaiah 3:5, Ezekiel 22:29, Amos 2:7, Amos 3:9, Amos 4:1, Amos 5:11, Micah 2:1, Micah 3:1-3, Micah 7:2, Malachi 3:5, James 5:4
oppress: or, deceive, 1 Samuel 12:3
Reciprocal: Psalms 10:3 - and blesseth Psalms 36:2 - For he Psalms 52:7 - strengthened Psalms 73:12 - they Proverbs 20:14 - It is naught Proverbs 20:23 - a false balance Isaiah 10:14 - And my Isaiah 23:11 - against the merchant city Isaiah 23:17 - and she shall Jeremiah 5:27 - so are Jeremiah 17:11 - he that Ezekiel 18:12 - oppressed Ezekiel 28:5 - and by Ezekiel 28:16 - the multitude Hosea 11:12 - compasseth Zephaniah 1:11 - all the Mark 11:17 - a den Luke 19:46 - General Acts 19:25 - ye know Acts 24:26 - hoped Revelation 18:15 - which
Cross-References
Forsothe Noe bildide an auter to the Lord, and he took of alle clene beestis and briddis, and offride brent sacrifices on the auter.
And fro thennus he passide forth to the hil Bethel, that was ayens the eest, and settide there his tabernacle, hauynge Bethel fro the west, and Hay fro the eest. And he bildide also there an auter to the Lord, and inwardli clepide his name.
And Abram yede goynge and goynge forth ouer to the south.
and that whanne Egipcians schulen se thee, thei schulen seie, it is his wijf, and thei schulen sle me, and `schulen reserue thee.
in the place of the auter which he made bifore, and inwardli clepide there the name of the Lord.
Y schal yyue al the lond which thou seest to thee and to thi seed, til in to with outen ende.
Therfor Abram, mouynge his tabernacle, cam and dwellide bisidis the valei of Mambre, which is in Ebron; and he bildide there an auter to the Lord.
In that dai the Lord made a couenaunt of pees with Abram, and seide, Y schal yyue to thi seed this lond, fro the ryuer of Egipt til to the greet ryuer Eufrates; Cyneis,
Forsothe aftir that Abram bigan to be of nynti yeer and nyne, the Lord apperide to hym, and seide to him, Y am Almyyti God; go thou bifore me, and be thou perfit;
And Abram felde doun lowe on his face.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
[He is] a merchant,.... Here is a change of person from "thou" to "he", from Judah to Ephraim, who is said to be a "merchant"; and if that was all, there is nothing worthy of dispraise in it; but he was a cheating merchant, a fraudulent dealer, as appears by what follows: or he is Canaan, or a Canaanite y; more like a descendant of Canaan, by his manners, than a descendant of Jacob. But the Canaanites dealing much in merchandise, their name became a common name for a merchant, as a Chaldean for an astrologer; and as the children of Israel possessed their land, so they followed the same business and employment of life; which, had they performed honestly, would not have been to their discredit; but they were too much like the Canaanites, of whom Philostratus z says, they were covetous and fraudulent; and this was Ephraim's character. The Targum is,
"be you not as merchants;''
the balances of deceit [are] in his hand; he used false weights and measures; made the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsified the balances by deceit; had wicked balances, and deceitful weights, and the scant measure, which is abominable, Amos 8:5; they pretended to weigh everything exactly they bought or sold; but cheated either by sleight or hand, holding the balances as they should not; or had one pair of scales and weights to buy with, and another to sell by, contrary to the law of God, Leviticus 19:35;
he loveth to oppress; instead of keeping and doing mercy and justice, they oppressed the poor, ground their faces, defrauded them of their due, and by secret and private methods cheated them in their dealings with them, and brought them to poverty and distress; and this they took delight and pleasure in, which showed a want of a principle of honesty in them, and that they were habituated to such a course of life, and were hardened in it, and had no remorse of conscience for it, but rather gloried in it.
y כנען χανααν, Sept. "Chanaan", V. L. Tigurine version; "Chanauaeum" refers, Munster. z Apud Grotium in loc.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
He is a merchant - Or, indignantly, “a merchant in whose hands are the balances of deceit!” How could they love “mercy and justice,” whose trade was “deceit,” who weighed out deceit with their goods? False in their dealings, in their weights and measures, and, by taking advantage of the necessities of others, oppressive also. Deceit is the sin of weakness oppression is the abuse of power. Wealth does not give the power to use naked violence but wealthy covetousness manifoldly grinds the poor. When for instance, wages are paid in necessaries priced exorbitantly, or when artisans are required to buy at a loss at their masters’ shops, what is it but the union of deceit and oppression? The trading world is full of oppression, scarcely veiled by deceit. “He loveth to oppress.” Deceit and oppression have, each, a devilish attractiveness to those practiced in them; deceit, as exercising cleverness, cunning, skill in overreaching, outwitting; oppression, as indulging self will, caprice, love of power, insolence, and the like vices. The word “merchant,” as the prophet spoke it, was “Canaan;” merchants being so called, because the Canaanites or Phoenicians were the then great merchant-people, as astrologers were called Chaldeans. The Phoenicians were, in Homer’s time, infamous for their griping in traffic. They are called “gnawers” and “money-lovers” . To call Israel, “Canaan,” was to deny to him any title to the name of Israel, “reversing the blessing of Jacob, so that, as it had been said of Jacob, “thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel,” he would in fact say, ‘Thy name shall be called no more Israel, but Canaan’; as being, through their deeds, heirs, not to the blessings of Israel but to the curse of Canaan.” So Ezekiel saith, “Thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother a Hittite” Ezekiel 16:3.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Hosea 12:7. He is a merchant — Or a Canaanite; referring to the Phoenicians, famous for their traffic. Ephraim is as corrupt as those heathenish traffickers were. He kept, as many in all ages have done, a weight and a weight; a heavy one to buy with and a light one to sell by.
