Amos 8:4,6 - Compare All Versions

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Hear this, you who trample the needy and do away with the poor of the land

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

Hear this, you who trample on the needy and bring the poor of the land to an end

that we may buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and sell the chaff of the wheat?”

Listen to this, you who rob the poor and trample down the needy!

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.

Hear this, you who trample on the needy  and do away with the poor of the land

We can buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals  and even sell the chaff! ”

Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail

That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

Hear this, you who swallow up the needy, And make the poor of the land fail

That we may buy the poor for silver, And the needy for a pair of sandals— Even sell the bad wheat?”

Listen to this, you who walk all over the weak, you who treat poor people as less than nothing, Who say, “When’s my next paycheck coming so I can go out and live it up? How long till the weekend when I can go out and have a good time?” Who give little and take much, and never do an honest day’s work. You exploit the poor, using them— and then, when they’re used up, you discard them.

Listen to this, you who walk all over the weak, you who treat poor people as less than nothing, Who say, “When’s my next paycheck coming so I can go out and live it up? How long till the weekend when I can go out and have a good time?” Who give little and take much, and never do an honest day’s work. You exploit the poor, using them— and then, when they’re used up, you discard them.

Hear this, you who trample the needy, to put an end to the humble of the land

So as to buy the helpless for money, And the needy for a pair of sandals, And that we may sell the refuse of the wheat?”

Hear this, you who trample down the needy, and do away with the poor of the land

So that we may buy the poor [as slaves] for silver [since they are unable to support themselves] And the needy for a pair of sandals, And that we may sell the leftovers of the wheat [as if it were a good grade of grain]?”

Listen to this, you who trample the needy, and do away with the destitute in the land.

We’re eager to trade silver for the poor, a pair of sandals for the needy! We want to mix in some chaff with the grain!”