Micah 6:11

Young's Literal Translation

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

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?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Shall I justify wicked balances, and the deceitful weights of the bag?

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

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

Contextual Overview

⁹ A voice of Jehovah to the city calleth, And wisdom doth fear Thy name, Hear ye the rod, and Him who appointed it. ¹⁰ Are there yet [in] the house of the wicked Treasures of wickedness, And the abhorred scanty ephah? ¹¹ Do I reckon [it] pure with balances of wickedness? And with a bag of deceitful stones? ¹² Whose rich ones have been full of violence, And its inhabitants have spoken falsehood, And their tongue [is] deceitful in their mouth. ¹³ And I also, I have begun to smite thee, To make desolate, because of thy sins. ¹⁴ Thou -- thou eatest, and thou art not satisfied, And thy pit [is] in thy midst, And thou removest, and dost not deliver, And that which thou deliverest, to a sword I give. ¹⁵ Thou -- thou sowest, and thou dost not reap, Thou -- thou treadest the olive, And thou pourest not out oil, And new wine -- and thou drinkest not wine. ¹⁶ And kept habitually are the statutes of Omri, And all the work of the house of Ahab, And ye do walk in their counsels, For My giving thee for a desolation, And its inhabitants for a hissing, And the reproach of My people ye do bear!

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 it cometh to pass that mankind have begun to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters have been born to them,

Genesis 6:2
and sons of God see the daughters of men that they [are] fair, and they take to themselves women of all whom they have chosen.

Genesis 7:1
And Jehovah saith to Noah, `Come in, thou and all thy house, unto the ark, for thee I have seen righteous before Me in this generation;

Genesis 10:9
he hath begun to be a hero in the land; he hath been a hero in hunting before Jehovah; therefore it is said, `As Nimrod the hero [in] hunting before Jehovah.'

Genesis 13:13
and the men of Sodom [are] evil, and sinners before Jehovah exceedingly.

2 Chronicles 34:27
Because thy heart [is] tender, and thou art humbled before God in thy hearing His words concerning this place, and concerning its inhabitants, and art humbled before Me, and dost rend thy garments, and weep before Me: even I also have heard -- the affirmation of Jehovah.

Psalms 11:5
Jehovah the righteous doth try. And the wicked and the lover of violence, Hath His soul hated,

Psalms 55:9
Swallow up, O Lord, divide their tongue, For I saw violence and strife in a city.

Psalms 140:11
A talkative man is not established in the earth, One of violence -- evil hunteth to overflowing.

Isaiah 60:18
Violence is not heard any more in thy land, Spoiling and destruction in thy borders, And thou hast called `Salvation' thy walls, And thy gates, `Praise.'

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?