Amos 8:6 - Compare All Versions

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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.

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

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?”

We will buy poor people for silver, and needy people for the price of a pair of sandals. We will even sell the wheat that was swept up from the floor.”

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

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

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

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]?”

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.

We can even sell the worthless chaff we sweep up for silver. We can buy the poor with silver and make them our slaves because they cannot pay their debts, even a debt so small as that of a pair of sandals.”

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