Micah 6:10
Is there not fire, and the house of the wicked heaping up wicked treasures, and that with the pride of unrighteousness?
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
11Shall the wicked be justified by the balance, or deceitful weights in the bag,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 25:13Thou shalt not have in thy bag diverse weights, a great and a small.
Joshua 7:1But the children of Israel committed a great trespass, and purloined part of the accursed thing; and Achan the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing; and the Lord was very angry with the children of Israel.
Proverbs 10:2Treasures shall not profit the lawless: 1 But righteousness shall deliver from death. 1
Proverbs 20:10A large and small weight, and diverse measures, 1 Are even both of them unclean before the Lord; 1 And so is he that makes them. 1
Proverbs 21:6He that gathers treasures with a lying tongue 1 Pursues vanity on to the snares of death. 1
Jeremiah 5:27As a snare which has been set is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore have they grown great, and become rich:
Matthew Henry on Micah 6:10-16
Accusations and Threatenings. ( b. c. 710.) 9 The Lord 's voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it. 10 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable? 11 Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? 12 For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their… Read the whole commentary →