Micah 6:11 KJV — MannaFest

Micah 6:11

Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?

KJV

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ASV

Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?

WEB

Can I excuse dishonest scales or bags of false weights?

YLT

Do I reckon it pure with balances of wickedness? And with a bag of deceitful stones?

DBT

Shall I be pure with the unjust balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?

About this book

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Micah — A prophet of rural Moresheth — contemporary of Isaiah — preaching judgment on Jerusalem and Samaria. Bethlehem named as Messiah's birthplace. And the Bible's clearest summary of what the LORD requires.

Author: Micah the Morasthite (1:1) — from Moresheth-Gath in the Judean lowlands
Date: c. 740–700 BC, during the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah

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8 verses on the floor

Hosea 12:7
He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
Leviticus 19:36
Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Job 31:6
Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.
Proverbs 16:11
A just weight and balance are the Lord’s: all the weights of the bag are his work.
James 2:6
But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?

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No; this is a sin which will by no means consist with a profession of purity. Those that are dishonest in their dealings have not the spots of God's children, and shall never be reckoned pure, whatever shows of devotion they may make.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

(4.) Those that had wealth and power in their hands abused it to oppression and extortion; The rich men thereof are full of violence; for those that have much would have more, and are in a capacity of making it more by the power which their abundance of wealth gives them. They are full of violence, that is, they have their houses full of that which is got by violence.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

With the pure God shows Himself pure; but with the froward God shows Himself froward (Ps 18:26). Men often are changeable in their judgments. But God, in the case of the impure who use "wicked balances," cannot be pure, that is, cannot deal with them as He would with the pure.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

MIC 6:11PRO 16:11 PRO 11:1
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
MIC 6:11PRO 16:11 PRO 20:10
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
MIC 6:11LEV 19:36 DEU 25:13-15
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
MIC 6:11LEV 19:36 EXO 20:2
MIC 6:11HOS 12:7 AMO 8:5-6
MIC 6:11HOS 12:7 MIC 6:10-11
MIC 6:11PRO 16:11 PRO 20:23
MIC 6:11HOS 12:7 ISA 3:5

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