Księga Ozeasza 12:7

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(12:8) Kanaan! W jego ręku fałszywe szale, lubi oszukiwać!

Parallel Translations

Biblia Brzeska (1563)
Aleś ty jest kupiec, w którego ręku zdradliwe są szale i który gwałt rad czyni.

Biblia Gdańska (1632)
Kupcem jest, w którego ręku są szale fałszywe; gwałt umiłował.

Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
Dlatego ty nawróć się do twojego Boga, przestrzegaj miłosierdzia i sądu; zawsze ufaj tylko twojemu Bogu.

Biblia Tysiąclecia
Kupcem jest, w którego ręku są szale fałszywe; gwałt umiłował.

Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
Jest kupcem, w jego ręce jest fałszywa waga, lubi uciskać.

Biblia Warszawska
Lecz ty nawróć się do swojego Boga, przestrzegaj miłości i prawa i zawsze ufaj swojemu Bogu!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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

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.