Hosea 12:8
And Ephraim says, || Surely I have become rich, I have found wealth for myself, || All my labors—they do not find against me iniquity that [is] sin.
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In Context
7Canaan! In his hand [are] balances of deceit! He has loved to oppress.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 8:17and you have said in your heart, My power and the might of my hand have made this wealth for me.
Psalms 49:6Those trusting on their wealth, || And in the multitude of their riches, || Show themselves foolish.
Psalms 62:10Do not trust in oppression, || And do not become vain in robbery, || Do not set the heart [on] wealth when it increases.
Proverbs 30:12A generation—pure in their own eyes, || But not washed from their own filth.
Isaiah 10:13For he has said, “I have worked by the power of my hand, || And by my wisdom, for I have been intelligent, || And I remove borders of the peoples, || And I have spoiled their chief ones, || And I put down the inhabitants as a mighty one,
Jeremiah 2:35And you say, Because I have been innocent, || Surely His anger has turned back from me? Behold, I have been judged with you, || Because of your saying, 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 →