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Selected Verse: Micah 6:11 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Mic 6:11 |
King James |
Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
Shall I count them pure--literally, "Shall I be pure with?" &c. With the pure God shows Himself pure; but with the froward God shows Himself froward (Psa 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. VATABLUS and HENDERSON make the "I" to be "any one"; "Can I (that is, one) be innocent with wicked balances?" But as "I," in Mic 6:13, refers to Jehovah, it must refer to Him also here.
the bag--in which weights used to be carried, as well as money (Deu 25:13; Pro 16:11). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| 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. 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" (Deu 25:13, Deu 25:15-16, add Pro 11:1; Pro 16:11; Pro 20:10). Yet are not these things common even now? |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Count them pure - Approve, or acquit then as if they were righteous. |
11 A just weight and balance are the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag are his work.
13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
13 Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.
26 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.
10 Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
11 A just weight and balance are the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag are his work.
1 A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
15 But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
16 For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
35 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
36 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.