Micah 6:11

Douay-Rheims Bible

Shall I justify wicked balances, and the deceitful weights of the bag?

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Can I excuse wicked scalesor bags of deceptive weights?

Hebrew Names Version
Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, And with a bag of deceitful weights?

King James Version (1611)
Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitfull weights?

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

English Standard Version
Shall I acquit the man with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful weights?

New American Standard Bible
"Can I justify dishonest balances, And a bag of fraudulent weights?

New Century Version
Can I forgive people who cheat others with wrong weights and scales?

Amplified Bible
"Can I [be guiltless and] justify deceptive scales And a bag of dishonest weights?

Geneva Bible (1587)
Shall I iustifie the wicked balances, and the bag of deceitfull weightes?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Can I justify wicked scales And a bag of deceptive weights?

Legacy Standard Bible
Can I purify wicked scalesAnd a bag of deceptive weights?

Berean Standard Bible
Can I excuse dishonest scales or bags of false weights?

Contemporary English Version
But I, the Lord , will punish you for cheating with weights and with measures.

Complete Jewish Bible
Should I declare innocent wicked scales and a bag of fraudulent weights?

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

Easy-to-Read Version
Some people carry special weights that they use to cheat people when they weigh their goods. Should I pardon them?

George Lamsa Translation
How can they justify themselves with the wicked scales and with the bag of deceitful weights?

Good News Translation
How can I forgive those who use false scales and weights?

Lexham English Bible
Shall I regard as pure the one with scales of wickedness, and with a bag of deceitful weights?

Literal Translation
Shall I declare wicked balances to be pure, or a bag of stones of fraud?

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

Bible in Basic English
Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
'Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?'

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Should I iustifie the false balaunces, and the bagge of deceitfull weightes?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Shall the wicked be justified by the balanced, or deceitful weights in the bag,

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

World English Bible
Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, And with a bag of deceitful weights?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whether Y schal iustifie the wickid balaunce, and the gileful weiytis of litil sak,

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

Webster's Bible Translation
Shall I count [them] pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?

New English Translation
I do not condone the use of rigged scales, or a bag of deceptive weights.

New King James Version
Shall I count pure those with the wicked scales, And with the bag of deceitful weights?

New Living Translation
How can I tolerate your merchants who use dishonest scales and weights?

New Life Bible
Can I make a man not guilty who lies and has false weights in his bag?

New Revised Standard
Can I tolerate wicked scales and a bag of dishonest weights?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Shall I be pure with lawless balances? or with bag of deceitful weights?

Revised Standard Version
Shall I acquit the man with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful weights?

Young's Literal Translation
Do I reckon [it] pure with balances of wickedness? And with a bag of deceitful stones?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Or shulde I iustfie the false balaunces and the bagge of disceatfull weightes,

Contextual Overview

⁹ The voice of the Lord crieth to the city, and salvation shall be to them that fear thy name: hear O ye tribes, and who shall approve it? ¹⁰ As yet there is a fire in the house of the wicked, the treasures of iniquity, and a scant measure full of wrath. ¹¹ Shall I justify wicked balances, and the deceitful weights of the bag? ¹² By which her rich men were filled with iniquity, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue was deceitful in their mouth. ¹³ And I therefore began to strike thee with desolation for thy sins. ¹⁴ Thou shalt eat, but shalt not be filled: and thy humiliation shall be in the midst of thee: and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not save: and those whom thou shalt save, I will give up to the sword. ¹⁵ Thou shalt sow, but shalt not reap: thou shalt tread the olives, but shalt not be anointed with oil: and the new wine, but shalt not drink the wine. ¹⁶ For thou hast kept the statutes of Amri, and all the works of the house of Achab: and thou hast walked according their wills, that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing, and you shall bear the reproach of my people.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

count them pure: or, be pure

the wicked: Hosea 12:7

the bag: Proverbs 16:11

Reciprocal: Exodus 20:15 - General Exodus 34:7 - that will by no means clear the guilty Deuteronomy 25:13 - in thy bag Job 31:6 - Let me be weighed in an even balance Proverbs 11:1 - A false balance is Proverbs 20:10 - both Jeremiah 5:27 - so are Ezekiel 22:13 - thy dishonest Ezekiel 45:10 - General Amos 8:5 - making James 2:6 - Do

Cross-References

Genesis 6:1
And after that men began to be multiplied upon the earth, and daughters were born to them,

Genesis 6:2
The sons of God seeing the daughters of men, that they were fair, took to themselves wives of all which they chose.

Genesis 7:1
And the Lord said to him: Go in, thou and all thy house, into the ark: for thee I have seen just before me in this generation.

Genesis 10:9
And he was a stout hunter before the Lord. Hence came a proverb: Even as Nemrod the stout hunter before the Lord.

Genesis 13:13
And the men of Sodom were very wicked, and sinners before the face of the Lord beyond measure.

2 Chronicles 34:27
And thy heart was softened, and thou hast humbled thyself in the sight of God for the things that are spoken against this place, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and reverencing my face, hast rent thy garments, and wept before me: I also have heard thee, saith the Lord.

Psalms 11:5
(10-6) The Lord trieth the just and the wicked: but he that loveth iniquity, hateth his own soul.

Psalms 55:9
(54-10) Cast down, O Lord, and divide their tongues; for I have seen iniquity and contradiction in the city.

Psalms 140:11
(139-12) A man full of tongue shall not be established in the earth: evil shall catch the unjust man unto destruction.

Isaiah 60:18
Iniquity shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction in thy borders, and salvation shall possess thy walls, and praise thy gates.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Shall I count [them] pure with the wicked balances,.... These are the words either of the prophet, or rather of God, signifying that he could not, and would not, allow, countenance, and approve of persons that used false scales or balances; or justify and reckon them just, as they would be thought to be, but condemn them, and pronounce them very wicked men, and deserving of punishment here and hereafter:

and with the bag of deceitful weights? or "stones" o; which were used in weighing goods, and which were deceitful, when a heavier was used in buying, and a lighter in selling. So the Targum,

"and with the bag, in which are weights greater and lesser;''

condemned in Deuteronomy 25:13.

o אבני מרמה "lapidum doli", Piscator; "lapidum fraudis", Montanus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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” Leviticus 19:35-36; and, “Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small. Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small. For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteousness are an abomination unto the Lord thy God” (Deuteronomy 25:13, Deuteronomy 25:15-16, add Proverbs 11:1; Proverbs 16:11; Proverbs 20:10). Yet are not these things common even now?