Amos 8:6

6 buying the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the sweepings with the wheat.

Amos 8:6 in Other Translations

KJV
6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
ESV
6 that we may buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and sell the chaff of the wheat?"
NLT
6 And you mix the grain you sell with chaff swept from the floor. Then you enslave poor people for one piece of silver or a pair of sandals.
MSG
6 You exploit the poor, using them - and then, when they're used up, you discard them.
CSB
6 We can buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and even sell the wheat husks!"

Amos 8:6 In-Context

4 Hear this, you who trample the needy and do away with the poor of the land,
5 saying, “When will the New Moon be over that we may sell grain, and the Sabbath be ended that we may market wheat?”— skimping on the measure, boosting the price and cheating with dishonest scales,
6 buying the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the sweepings with the wheat.
7 The LORD has sworn by himself, the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget anything they have done.
8 “Will not the land tremble for this, and all who live in it mourn? The whole land will rise like the Nile; it will be stirred up and then sink like the river of Egypt.

Cross References 2

  • 1. Amos 5:11
  • 2. S Amos 2:6; S Amos 4:1
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