Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

[He is] a Canaanite. The balances of deceit are in his hand. He loves to oppress.

New American Standard Bible

A merchant, in whose hands are false balances,
He loves to oppress.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

A merchant loves to extort
with dishonest scales in his hands.

International Standard Version

"Now as for the merchant, deceitful balances remain in his hand, and he loves to defraud.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


A merchant, in whose hand are false and fraudulent balances;
He loves to oppress and exploit.

Bible in Basic English

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

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

Canaan in his hand, the balances of deceit: he loved to oppress.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

[The] trader, in his hand [are] scales of deceit; he loves to oppress.

Modern King James verseion

He is a merchant; the scales of deceit are in his hand; he loves to oppress.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

But the merchant hath a false weight in his hand, he hath a pleasure to occupy extortion.

NET Bible

The businessmen love to cheat; they use dishonest scales.

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

A trafficker! in his hand, are balances of deceit, to oppress, he loveth.

Webster

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

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
He is a merchant
כּנען 
K@na`an 
Usage: 93

the balances
מאזן 
Mo'zen 
Usage: 15

of deceit
מרמה 
Mirmah 
Usage: 39

are in his hand
יד 
Yad 
Usage: 1612

he loveth
אהב אהב 
'ahab 
Usage: 212

References

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Context Readings

Further Words Of Judgment

6 Therefore turn thou to thy God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait for thy God continually. 7 [He is] a Canaanite. The balances of deceit are in his hand. He loves to oppress. 8 And Ephraim said, Surely I have become rich. I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors they shall find no iniquity in me that is sin.

Cross References

Proverbs 11:1

A FALSE balance is an abomination to LORD, but a just weight is his delight.

Leviticus 19:35-36

Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.

1 Samuel 12:3

Here I am. Witness against me before LORD, and before his anointed: Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or of whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with i

Proverbs 16:11

A just balance and scales are LORD's. All the weights of the bag are his work.

Isaiah 3:5

And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor. The child shall behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.

Ezekiel 16:3

and say, Thus says lord LORD to Jerusalem: Thy birth and thy nativity is from the land of the Canaanite. The Amorite was thy father, and thy mother was a Hittite.

Ezekiel 22:29

The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery. Yea, they have vexed the poor and needy man, and have oppressed the sojourner wrongfully.

Amos 2:7

those who pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek. And a man and his father go to the [same] maiden, to profane my holy name.

Amos 3:9

Publish ye in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold what great tumults are in it, and what oppressions are in the midst of it.

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, ye cows of Bashan, who are in the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their lords, Bring, and let us drink.

Amos 5:11

Inasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions of wheat from him. Ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them. Ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine thereof.

Amos 8:5-6

saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit,

Micah 2:1

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Micah 3:1-3

And I said, Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel. Is it not for you to know justice?

Micah 6:10-11

Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a scant measure that is abominable?

Micah 7:2

The devout man has perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men. They all lay in wait for blood. They hunt every man his brother with a net.

Zechariah 14:21

Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holy to LORD of hosts. And all those who sacrifice shall come and take of them, and boil in it. And in that day there shall be no more a Canaanite in the house of LORD of hosts.

Malachi 3:5

And I will come near to you to judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the FALSE swearers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the f

John 2:16

And he said to those who sell the doves, Take these things from here. Make not my Father's house a house of merchandise.

1 Timothy 6:9-10

But those who want to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, which sink men in destruction and ruin.

James 5:4

Behold the wage of the workmen who reaped your fields. The man who was defrauded by you cries out. And the outcries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of Lord of hosts.

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