Amos 8:6

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

supaya kita membeli orang lemah karena uang dan orang yang miskin karena sepasang kasut; dan menjual terigu rosokan?"

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
supaya kita membeli orang lemah karena uang dan orang yang miskin karena sepasang kasut; dan menjual terigu rosokan?"

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
supaya boleh kita menjual orang miskin karena uang dan orang papapun karena kasut sepasang, dan ganti gandum kita menjual sekam.

Contextual Overview

⁴ Heare this, O ye that swallow vp the poore, that ye may make the needy of the lande to fayle, ⁵ Saying, When will the new moneth be gone, that we may sell corne? & the Sabbath, that we may set foorth wheate, and make the Epha small, & the sicle great, & falsifie the wayghtes by deceite? ⁶ That we may bie the poore for siluer, and the needy for shoes, yea and sell the refuse of the wheate? ⁷ The Lorde hath sworne by the excellencie of Iacob, surely I will neuer forget any of their workes. ⁸ Shall not the lande tremble for this, and euerie one mourne that dwelleth therin? And it shall rise vp wholly as a flood, and it shalbe cast out, and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt. ⁹ And in that day, sayth the Lord God, I will euen cause the sunne to go downe at noone, and I wil darken the earth in the cleare day. ¹⁰ And I will turne your feastes into mourning, and all your songues into lamentation: and I will bring sackecloth vpon all loynes, and baldnesse vpon euery head, & I will make it as the mourning of an only sonne, and the end therof as a bitter day.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Amos 8:4, Amos 2:6, Leviticus 25:39-42, Nehemiah 5:1-5, Nehemiah 5:8, Joel 3:3, Joel 3:6

Reciprocal: Leviticus 19:35 - in meteyard Proverbs 11:1 - A false balance is Proverbs 22:7 - rich Isaiah 32:6 - empty Jeremiah 34:14 - At the Hosea 12:7 - the balances Amos 3:9 - oppressed Micah 6:10 - and 1 Thessalonians 4:6 - go Revelation 18:13 - slaves

Cross-References

Genesis 6:16
A wyndowe shalt thou make in the arke, and in a cubite shalt thou finishe it aboue: but the doore of the arke shalt thou set in the syde therof. With three loftes one aboue another shalt thou make it.

Daniel 6:10
Now when Daniel vnderstoode that he had sealed the writing, he went into his house, and the windowes of his chamber towarde Hierusalem stoode open, there kneeled he downe vpon his knees three times a day, he made his petition, and praysed his God, as he dyd afore time.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

That we may buy the poor for silver,.... Thus making them pay dear for their provisions, and using them in this fraudulent manner, by which they would not be able to support themselves and their families; they might purchase them and theirs for slaves, at so small a price as a piece of silver, or a single shekel, worth about half a crown; and this was their end and design in using them after this manner; see

Leviticus 25:39;

and the needy for a pair of shoes; Leviticus 25:39- :;

[yea], and sell the refuse of the wheat; not only did they sell the poor grain and wheat at a dear rate, and in scanty measure, but the worst of it, and such as was not fit to make bread of, only to be given to the cattle; and, by reducing the poor to extreme poverty, they obliged them to take that of them at their own price. It may be rendered, "the fall of wheat" c; that which fell under the sieve, when the wheat was sifted, as Aben Ezra, Kimchi, and Ben Melech, observe.

c מפל בר "labile frumenti", Montanus; "decidum frumenti", Cocceius; "deciduum triciti", Drusius, Mercerus, Stockius, p. 690.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

That we may buy - Or, indignantly, “To buy the poor!” literally, “the afflicted,” those in “low” estate. First, by dishonesty and oppression they gained their lands and goods. Then the poor were obliged to sell themselves. The slight price, for which a man was sold, showed the more contempt for “the image of God.” Before, he said, “the needy” were “sold for a pair of sandals” Amos 2:6; here, that they were bought for them. It seems then the more likely that such was a real price for man.

And sell the refuse - Literally, the “falling of wheat,” that is, what fell through the sieve, either the bran, or the thin, unfilled, grains which had no meal in them. This they mixed up largely with the meal, making a gain of that which they had once sifted out as worthless; or else, in a time of dearth, they sold to people what was the food of animals, and made a profit on it. Infancy and inexperience of cupidity, which adulterated its bread only with bran, or sold to the poor only what, although unnourishing, was wholesome! But then, with the multiplied hard-dealing, what manifoldness of the woe!

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Amos 8:6. That we may buy the poor for silver — Buying their services for such a time, with just money enough to clear them from other creditors.

And the needy for a pair of shoes — See Amos 2:6.

And sell the refuse of the wheat! — Selling bad wheat and damaged flour to poor people as good, knowing that such cannot afford to prosecute them.