Hosea 12:7 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

The LORD says, "The merchants use dishonest scales. They love to cheat people.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

ASV:

He is a trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

BBE:

As for Canaan, the scales of deceit are in his hands; he takes pleasure in twisted ways.

DBY:

He is a merchant, balances of deceit are in his hand; he loveth to oppress.

ERV:

He is a trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

JPS:

As for the trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand. He loveth to oppress.

WBS:

He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

WEB:

A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.

YLT:

Canaan! in his hand are balances of deceit! To oppress he hath loved.

Hosea 12:7 Cross References

XREF:

Proverbs 11:1 A false balance is an abomination to the LORD, But a just weight is His delight.

Amos 8:5 saying, "When will the new moon be over, So that we may sell grain, And the sabbath, that we may open the wheat market, To make the bushel smaller and the shekel bigger, And to cheat with dishonest scales,

Micah 6:11 "Can I justify wicked scales And a bag of deceptive weights? (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

12:7 [He is] {g} a merchant, the balances of deceit [are] in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
(g) As for Ephraim, he is more like the wicked Canaanites than godly Abraham or Jacob.

WES:

12:7 A merchant - Ephraim is so far from being as Jacob, that you may account him a Canaanite, a subtle merchant.

MHC:

12:7-14 Ephraim became a merchant: the word also signifies a Canaanite. They carried on trade upon Canaanitish principles, covetously and with fraud and deceit. Thus they became rich, and falsely supposed that Providence favoured them. But shameful sins shall have shameful punishments. Let them remember, not only what a mighty prince Jacob was with God, but what a servant he was to Laban. The benefits we have had from the word of God, make our sin and folly the worse, if we put any slight upon that word. We had better follow the hardest labour in poverty, than grow rich by sin. We may form a judgment of our own conduct, by comparing it with that of ancient believers in the like circumstances. Whoever despises the message of God, will perish. May we all hear his word with humble, obedient faith.

CONC:

Balances Canaan Deceit Defraud Dishonest Hands Loved Loves Loveth Merchant Oppress Pleasure Scales Takes Trader Trafficker Twisted Uses

Balances Canaan Deceit Defraud Dishonest Hand Hands Loves Merchant Oppress Pleasure Scales Trader Trafficker Twisted Uses

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