Micah Chapter 6 verse 11 Holy Bible
Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
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Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment?
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Shall I be pure with the unjust balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
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Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
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Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, And with a bag of deceitful weights?
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Do I reckon `it' pure with balances of wickedness? And with a bag of deceitful stones?
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 11. - Shall I count them pure? literally, Shall I be pure? The clause is obscure. The Authorized Version regards the speaker as the same as in ver. 10, and translates with some violence to the text. It may be that the prophet speaks as the representative of the awakened transgressor, "Can I be guiltless with such deceit about me?" But the sudden change of personification and of state of feeling is very harsh. Hence some follow Jerome in regarding God as the speaker, and rendering, "Shall I justify the wicked balance?" others, the Septuagint, Syriac, and Chaldee, Αἰ δικαιωθήσεται ἐν ζυγῷ ἄνομος; "Shall the wicked be justified by the balance?" Cheyne is inclined to read the verb in the second person, "Canst thou (O Jerusalem) be pure?" since in the next verse the prophet proceeds, "the rich men thereof" (i.e. of Jerusalem). If we retain the present reading, "Can I be innocent?" we must consider the question as put, for effect's sake, in the mouth of one of the rich oppressors. Jerome's translation is contrary to the use of the verb, which is always intransitive in kal.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(11) Shall I count them pure?--Rather, Can I be innocent with the deceitful balances? The enactments about weights were very stringently expressed in the Law, both affirmatively and negatively: e.g., in Leviticus 19:35-36, "Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure. Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have." And, "thou shalt not have in thy house divers weights," . . . and "divers measures, a great and small" (Deuteronomy 25:13-14).
