Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment?
New American Standard Bible
And a bag of deceptive weights?
King James Version
Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
Holman Bible
or bags of deceptive weights?
International Standard Version
Will I tolerate those who maintain deceptive standards and who use deceitful weights in their business?
A Conservative Version
Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
American Standard Version
Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
Amplified
“Can I [be guiltless and] justify deceptive scales
And a bag of dishonest weights?
Darby Translation
Shall I be pure with the unjust balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
Julia Smith Translation
Shall I make clean with the balances of injustice, and with the bag of stones of deceit?
King James 2000
Shall I count those pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Shall I regard as pure [the one] with scales of wickedness, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
Modern King James verseion
Shall I count those with the wicked scales pure, and those with the bag of deceitful weights?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Or should I justify the false balances and the bag of deceitful weights,
NET Bible
I do not condone the use of rigged scales, or a bag of deceptive weights.
New Heart English Bible
Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
The Emphasized Bible
Shall I be pure with lawless balances? or with bag of deceitful weights?
Webster
Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
World English Bible
Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
Youngs Literal Translation
Do I reckon it pure with balances of wickedness? And with a bag of deceitful stones?
Themes
Business life » Dishonesty » Condemned
Business life » Fidelity » Giving of just weights
Character » Of the wicked » Fraudulent
Character of the wicked » Fraudulent
Satisfaction » Who shall not be satisfied
Social duties » Mercifulness » Of giving just weights
Vices » Dishonesty » Condemned
Virtues » Fidelity » Giving of just weights
Wealth » Treasures of wickedness
Weights » Troy weights a gerah = 1/50 oz » 10 gerahs = 1 bekah = 1/5 oz
Topics
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Micah 6:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Destruction Of The Wicked
10 Am I to let the stores of the evil-doer go out of my memory, and the short measure, which is cursed? 11 Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment? 12 For its men of wealth are cruel, and its people have said what is not true, and their tongue is false in their mouth.
Cross References
Hosea 12:7
As for Canaan, the scales of deceit are in his hands; he takes pleasure in twisted ways.
Leviticus 19:36
Have true scales, true weights and measures for all things: I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt;
Proverbs 16:11
True measures and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are his work.