Amos 8:6
World English Bible (WEB)
that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’”
In context
4 Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
5 saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;
6 that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’”
7 The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob, “Surely I will never forget any of their works.
8 Won’t the land tremble for this, and everyone mourn who dwells in it? Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River; and it will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt.
Amos 8:6 in every translation
- 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?’”
- 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?
- 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!”
- 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?