SEV Biblia, Chapter 3:10
Y no saben hacer lo recto, dijo el SEÑOR, atesorando rapiñas y despojos en sus palacios.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Amos 3:10
Verse 10. For they know not to do right] So we may naturally say that they who are doing wrong, and to their own prejudice and ruin, must certainly be ignorant of what is right, and what is their own interest. But we say again "There are none so blind as those who will not see." Their eyes, saith the Lord, they have closed.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 10. For they know not to do right, saith the Lord , etc.] What is just and fight between man and man, no, not in one single instance; they did not regard it, or advert to it; they were under no concern about it; and were so much under the power of their lusts, that they knew not how to do it; and had used themselves so long to such wicked and unjust ways, that they had lost at least the practical knowledge of doing justice; they knew what was right in the theory, but not in the practice; bribes blinded their eyes; for this seems to design judges, civil magistrates, such who had the administration of justice and the execution Of the laws in their hands. The Targum is, “they know not to execute the law;” (see Jeremiah 4:22); who store up violence and robbery in their palaces ; treasured up riches in their palaces, gotten in a violent way, by oppression and injustice; and which was no other, nor better, than robbery. This shows that persons in power and authority, that lived in palaces, in great splendour and grandeur, are here meant.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 9-15 - That power which is an instrument of unrighteousness, will justly be brought down and broken. What is got and kept wrongfully, will not be kept long. Some are at ease, but there will come a day of visitation and in that day, all they are proud of, and put confidence in, shal fail them. God will inquire into the sins of which they have bee guilty in their houses, the robbery they have stored up, and the luxur in which they lived. The pomp and pleasantness of men's houses, do no fortify against God's judgments, but make sufferings the more grievou and vexatious. Yet a remnant, according to the election of grace, wil be secured by our great and good Shepherd, as from the jaws of destruction, in the worst times __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ולא 3808 ידעו 3045 עשׂות 6213 נכחה 5229 נאם 5002 יהוה 3068 האוצרים 686 חמס 2555 ושׁד 7701 בארמנותיהם׃ 759
