Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Business life » Dishonesty » Condemned
A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.
A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.
Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.
"It's no good, it's no good," says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a small.
Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.
Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor's service without wages, and doesn't give him his hire;
Business life » Dishonesty » Unjust gain
As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.
Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.
Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor's service without wages, and doesn't give him his hire;
Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.
Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.
He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.
Behold, therefore, I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been in the midst of you.
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 Armies.
Dishonesty » Condemned
A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.
A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.
Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.
"It's no good, it's no good," says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a small.
Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.
Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor's service without wages, and doesn't give him his hire;
Lying » Vanity of getting riches by
Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.
Lying/lies » The acquiring of wealth by lying
Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.
Riches » Denunciations against those who » Get, by vanity
Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.
The lord seeking that which was lost » Those that seek death
Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.
Vanity » Riches gotten by falsehood are
Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.
Vices » Dishonesty » Condemned
A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.
A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.
Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.
"It's no good, it's no good," says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a small.
Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.
Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor's service without wages, and doesn't give him his hire;
Vices » Dishonesty » Unjust gain
As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.
Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.
Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor's service without wages, and doesn't give him his hire;
Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.
Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.
He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.
Behold, therefore, I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been in the midst of you.
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 Armies.
Wealth » The acquisition of treasures by lying
Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.