Hosea 12:8

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Summary

And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin.

Yet

I have

Bible References

Yet

If I have made gold my confidence, And to the pure gold have said, 'My trust,'

Those trusting on their wealth, And in the multitude of their riches, Do shew themselves foolish.

'Lo, the man who maketh not God his strong place, And trusteth in the abundance of his riches, He is strong in his mischiefs.'

Trust not in oppression, And in robbery become not vain, Wealth -- when it increaseth -- set not the heart.

Whose buyers slay them, and are not guilty, And their sellers say, Blessed is Jehovah, And I am rich, And their shepherds have no pity on them.

and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years, be resting, eat, drink, be merry.

'No domestic is able to serve two lords, for either the one he will hate, and the other he will love; or one he will hold to, and of the other he will be heedless; ye are not able to serve God and mammon.'

wranglings of men wholly corrupted in mind, and destitute of the truth, supposing the piety to be gain; depart from such;

because thou sayest -- I am rich, and have grown rich, and have need of nothing, and hast not known that thou art the wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked,

I have

and thou hast said in thy heart, My power, and the might of my hand, hath made for me this wealth:

For he hath said, 'By the power of my hand I have wrought, And by my wisdom, for I have been intelligent, And I remove borders of the peoples, And their chief ones I have spoiled, And I put down as a mighty one the inhabitants,

Therefore he doth sacrifice to his net, And doth make perfume to his drag, For by them is his portion fertile, and his food fat.

And also, because the wine is treacherous, A man is haughty, and remaineth not at home, Who hath enlarged as sheol his soul, And is as death that is not satisfied, And doth gather unto itself all the nations, And doth assemble unto itself all the peoples,