Parallel Verses
New Heart English Bible
A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.
New American Standard Bible
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
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.
A Conservative Version
[He is] a Canaanite. The balances of deceit are in his hand. He loves to oppress.
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.
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.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Hosea 12:7
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Further Words Of Judgment
6 Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God. 7 A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud. 8 Ephraim said, "Surely I have become rich, I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won't find in me any iniquity that is sin."
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Cross References
Proverbs 11:1
A false balance is an abomination to the LORD, but accurate weights are his delight.
Leviticus 19:35-36
"'You 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 the LORD, and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Of whose hand have I taken a ransom to blind my eyes therewith? I will restore it to you."
Proverbs 16:11
Honest balances and scales are the LORD's; all the weights in the bag are his work.
Isaiah 3:5
The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.
Ezekiel 16:3
and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD to Jerusalem: Your birth and your birth is of the land of the Canaanite; the Amorite was your father, and your mother was a Hittite.
Ezekiel 22:29
The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.
Amos 2:7
They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;
Amos 3:9
Proclaim in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, "Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria, and see what unrest is in her, and what oppression is among them."
Amos 4:1
Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, "Bring us drinks."
Amos 5:11
Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.
Amos 8:5-6
Saying, 'When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;
Micah 2:1
Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds. When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Micah 3:1-3
I said, "Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn't it for you to know justice?
Micah 6:10-11
Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed?
Micah 7:2
The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.
Zechariah 14:21
Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the LORD of hosts; and all those who sacrifice will come and take of them, and cook in them. In that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts.
Malachi 3:5
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 perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and do not fear me," says the LORD of hosts.
John 2:16
To those who sold the doves, he said, "Take these things out of here. Do not make my Father's house a marketplace."
1 Timothy 6:9-10
But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.
James 5:4
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.