Micah 6:11
Can I excuse dishonest scales or bags of false weights?
BSB
ASV
Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
KJV
Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
(Verse 10 and following). Listen, you who are wise, and who will approve of it? The fire is still burning in the house of the wicked, the treasure of impiety, and the measure of anger is not yet full. Shall I justify the wicked scales and the deceitful weights of the bag? In them, her rich ones are filled with iniquity, and those who dwell in her speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth. And so I have begun to strike you with destruction because of your sins.
Shall I count them pure? - Rather, (as the English margin) “Shall I be pure?” The prophet takes for the time their person and bids them judge themselves in him. If it would defile me, how are ye, with all your other sins, not defiled? All these things were expressly forbidden in the law. “Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in mete-yard, in weight or in measure. Just balances, just weights, a just ephah and a just him, shall ye have” Lev 19:35-36; and, “Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
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.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Proverbs 16:11Honest scales and balances are from the LORD; all the weights in the bag are His concern.
leads to
Dishonest scales are an abomination to the LORD, but an accurate weight is His delight.
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
Differing weights and unequal measures—both are detestable to the LORD.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Unequal weights are detestable to the LORD, and dishonest scales are no good.
Through
Leviticus 19:36You shall maintain honest scales and weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
leads to
You shall not have two differing weights in your bag, one heavy and one light.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
Through
Hosea 12:7A merchant loves to defraud with dishonest scales in his hands.
leads to
asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us…
Can I forget any longer, O house of the wicked, the treasures of wickedness and the short ephah, which is accursed?
The people will oppress one another, man against man, neighbor against neighbor; the young will rise up against the old, and the base against the honorable.
