Księga Ozeasza 12:8

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(12:9) A Efraim na to: Owszem, wzbogaciłem się, zdobyłem bogactwo. Lecz w tym, co osiągnąłem, nie dopatrzono się grzechu, który obciążałby mnie jakąś winą!

Parallel Translations

Biblia Brzeska (1563)
A wszakoż Efraim mówił: Zgromadziłem sobie wiele bogactw, a we wszytkich pracach moich nie jest naleziona złość ani grzech.

Biblia Gdańska (1632)
I mówi Efraim: Zaiste zbogaciłem się, nabyłem sobie bogactw we wszystkich pracach moich, nie znajdą przy mnie nieprawości, coby grzechem była.

Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
Kupiec – w jego ręce szale oszustwa; pragnie krzywdzić!

Biblia Tysiąclecia
I mówi Efraim: Zaiste zbogaciłem się, nabyłem sobie bogactw we wszystkich pracach moich, nie znajdą przy mnie nieprawości, coby grzechem była.

Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
I Efraim powiedział: Ale wzbogaciłem się, zdobyłem dla siebie bogactwo. We wszystkich moich trudach nie znajdą przy mnie nieprawości, co byłoby grzechem.

Biblia Warszawska
W jego ręku - jak u Kananejczyka - jest fałszywa waga, lubi oszukiwać.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Yet: Job 31:24, Job 31:25, Psalms 49:6, Psalms 52:7, Psalms 62:10, Zechariah 11:5, Luke 12:19, Luke 16:13, 1 Timothy 6:5, 1 Timothy 6:17, Revelation 3:17

I have: Deuteronomy 8:17, Isaiah 10:13, Isaiah 10:14, Habakkuk 1:16, Habakkuk 2:5, Habakkuk 2:6

in all: etc. or, all my labours suffice me not; he shall have punishment of iniquity in whom is sin

they: Proverbs 30:12, Proverbs 30:20, Jeremiah 2:23, Jeremiah 2:35, Malachi 2:17, Malachi 3:13, Luke 10:29, Luke 16:15

that: Heb. which.

Reciprocal: Psalms 10:3 - and blesseth Psalms 36:2 - For he Psalms 49:18 - blessed Psalms 73:12 - they Proverbs 20:14 - It is naught Isaiah 23:11 - against the merchant city Isaiah 23:17 - and she shall Jeremiah 5:27 - so are Jeremiah 13:22 - the greatness Jeremiah 16:10 - Wherefore Jeremiah 17:11 - he that Ezekiel 28:5 - and by Hosea 10:1 - to the multitude Micah 6:10 - and Zephaniah 1:11 - all the Malachi 1:6 - And ye John 2:16 - make Acts 19:25 - ye know Acts 24:26 - hoped 1 Timothy 6:9 - they Revelation 18:15 - which

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Ephraim said, yet I am become rich,.... Notwithstanding they took such unjust methods, as to use deceitful balances, they prospered in the world, got abundance of riches; and therefore concluded from thence that their manner of dealing was not criminal, at least not so bad as the prophets represented to them; and so promised themselves impunity, and that what they were threatened with would not come upon them; and, as long as they got riches, they cared not in what manner; and inasmuch as they prospered and succeeded in their course of trading, they were encouraged to go on, and not fear any evil coming upon them for it. According to Aben Ezra and Kimchi, the sense is, that they became rich of themselves, by their own industry and labour, and did not acknowledge that their riches, and power to get them, were of God. They gloried in them as their own attainments; and which they had little reason to do, since they were treasures of wickedness, and mammon of unrighteousness, which in a day of wrath would be of no service to them;

I have found me out substance; they found ways and means of acquiring great riches, and large estates, by their own wisdom and cunning, and all for themselves, for their own use, to be enjoyed by them for years to come; and they were reckoned by them solid and substantial things, when a mere shadow, emptiness, and vanity; and were not to be employed for their own use and advantage only, but should have been for the good of others; nor were they to be attributed to their own sagacity, prudence, and management, but to the providence of God, admitting they had been got in ever so honourable and just a manner;

[in] all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that [were] sin: here again Ephraim, or the people of Israel, vainly ascribe all their wealth and riches to their own labour, diligence, and industry, and take no notice of God and his providence, or of his blessing upon them; and pretend to be very upright and honest in their dealings, and that what they got were very honestly got, and would bear the strictest scrutiny; and that if their course of trade was ever so narrowly looked into, there would be nothing found that was very bad or criminal, that they could be justly reproached the; only some little trifling things, that would not bear the name of "sin", or deserve any correction or punishment; so pure were they in their own eyes, so blinded and hardened in sin, and fearless of the divine displeasure; like the adulterous woman, wiped their mouths when they had eaten the sweet morsels of sin, and said they had done no wickedness, Proverbs 30:20; or which was involuntary, and not done knowingly, as Kimchi and Abendana: or rather, as Ben Melech renders it, "no iniquity and sin"; and so others: or, best of all, "no iniquity or sin", as Noldius a; no iniquity, or any kind of sin at all. Thus, as Ephraim was charged before with idolatry and lies in religion, so here with fraudulent dealings, and getting riches in an illicit way in civil things; and of whose repentance and reformation there was no hope.

a Concord. Ebr. Part. p. 104. No. 522.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And Ephraim said, Yet am I become rich - Literally, “I am simply rich.” As if he said, “the only result of all this, with which the prophets charge me, is that ‘I am become rich:’ and since God thus prospers me, it is a sure proof that he is not displeased with me, that ‘no iniquity’ can be ‘found in me;’” the ordinary practical argument of men, as long as God withholds His punishments, that their ways cannot be so displeasing to Him. With the people of this world, with its politicians, in trade, it is the one decisive argument: “I was in the right, for I succeeded.” “It was a good speculation, for he gained thousands.” “it was good policy, for, see its fruits. An answer, at which the pagan laughed, “the people hisses me, but I, I, safe at home, applaud myself, when the coin jingles in my chest” . The pagan ridiculed it; Christians enact it. But in truth, the fact that God does not punish, is often the evidence of His extremest displeasure.

They shall find none iniquity in me, that were sin - The merchants of Ephraim continue their protest; “in all the toil of my hands, all my buying and selling, my bargains, contracts, they can bring no iniquity home to me,” and then, in a tone of simple innocence, they add, ‘that’ were ‘sin,’ as though they ‘could’ not do, what to do were sin. None suspect themselves less, than those intent on gain. The evil customs of other traders, the habits of trade, the seeming necessity for some frauds, the conventional nature of others, the minuteness of others, with their frequent repetition, blind the soul, until it sees no sin, while, with every smallest sale, “they sell their own souls into the bargain” .

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hosea 12:8. I am become rich — They boasted in their riches, notwithstanding the unjust manner in which they were acquired.

In all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me — This is frequently the language of merchants, tradesmen, c. None are so full of professions of equity and justice, while all the time they are endeavouring to overreach, both in buying and selling. "Sir, I cannot afford it at that price." "It is not mine for that money." "I assure you that it cost me more than you offer." "I am sorry I cannot take your money but if I did, I should lose by the article," c., &c., &c. I have heard such language over and over, when I knew every word was false. Truth is a sacred thing in the sight of God but who regards it as he should? There are, however, many noble exceptions among merchants and tradesmen. Bp. Newcome gives another turn to the subject, by translating: -

"All his labours shall not be found profitable unto him,

For the iniquity wherewith he hath sinned."