Balances Canaan Deceit Defraud Dishonest Hands Loved Loves Loveth Merchant Oppress Pleasure Scales Takes Trader Trafficker Twisted Uses
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.
12:7 A merchant - Ephraim is so far from being as Jacob, that you may account him a Canaanite, a subtle merchant.
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.
Balances Canaan Deceit Defraud Dishonest Hand Hands Loves Merchant Oppress Pleasure Scales Trader Trafficker Twisted Uses
Balances Canaan Deceit Defraud Dishonest Hand Hands Loves Merchant Oppress Pleasure Scales Trader Trafficker Twisted Uses
