Hosea 12:8
And Ephraim boasts: “How rich I have become! I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors, they can find in me no iniquity that is sinful.”
Berean Standard Bible
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In Context
7A merchant loves to defraud with dishonest scales in his hands.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 8:17You might say in your heart, “The power and strength of my hands have made this wealth for me.”
Psalms 49:6They trust in their wealth and boast in their great riches.
Psalms 62:10Place no trust in extortion, or false hope in stolen goods. If your riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.
Proverbs 30:12There is a generation of those who are pure in their own eyes and yet unwashed of their filth.
Isaiah 10:13For he says: ‘By the strength of my hand I have done this, and by my wisdom, for I am clever. I have removed the boundaries of nations and plundered their treasures; like a mighty one I subdued their rulers.
Jeremiah 2:35you say, ‘I am innocent. Surely His anger will turn from me.’ Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’
Matthew Henry on Hosea 12:8-14
Reproof for Sin; Judgment Threatened; Memorials of Divine Mercy. ( b. c. 723.) 7 He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress. 8 And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin. 9 And I that am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast. 10 I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used… Read the whole commentary →