Hosea 12:8
Ephraim said, “I have certainly become very rich; 1 I have found wealth for myself. 1 In all my work they will not find any iniquity in me, 1 anything that would be sin.” 1
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7The merchants have false scales in their hands; 1 they love to defraud. 1
Cross References
Deuteronomy 8:17but you may say in your heart, 'My power and the might of my hand acquired all this wealth.'
Psalms 49:6Why should I fear those who trust in their wealth 1 and boast about the amount of their riches? 1
Psalms 62:10Do not trust in oppression or robbery; 1 and do not hope uselessly in riches, 1 for they will bear no fruit; do not fix your heart on them. 1
Proverbs 30:12There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, 1 and yet they are not washed of their filth. 1
Isaiah 10:13For he says, 1 “By my strength and by my wisdom I acted. I have understanding, 1 and I have removed the boundaries of the peoples. I have stolen their treasures, 1 and like a bull I have brought down the inhabitants. 1
Jeremiah 2:35Yet you say, 'I am innocent; surely his anger has turned away from me.' 1 But look! I will bring down judgment on you because you say, 'I have not sinned.' 1
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 →