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


In Context

3 "In that day," declares the Sovereign Lord , "the songs in the temple will turn to wailing. Many, many bodies-flung everywhere! Silence!"

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 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 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.

Amos 8:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:6That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; [yea,] and sell the refuse of the wheat?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

8:6That we may possess the needy for money, and the poor for a pair of shoes, and may sell the refuse of the corn?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

8:6that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:6that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; and that we may sell the refuse of the wheat.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:6that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:6That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; and even sell the refuse of the wheat?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:6that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?'|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

8:6To purchase with money the poor, And the needy for a pair of sandals, Yea, the refuse of the pure corn we sell.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:6That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?