Amos 8:6
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!”
In context
4 Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,
5 asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales.
6 Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!”
7 The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget any of their deeds.
8 Will not the land quake for this, and all its dwellers mourn? All of it will swell like the Nile; it will surge and then subside like the Nile in Egypt.
Amos 8:6 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!”
- KJV King James Version
- That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
- WEB World English Bible
- that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’”
- ASV American Standard Version
- that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- To purchase with money the poor, And the needy for a pair of sandals, Yea, the refuse of the pure corn we sell.
- DBY Darby Translation
- that 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.
- WBS Webster Bible
- That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; and even sell the refuse of the wheat?