SEV Biblia, Chapter 8:6
y compraremos los pobres por dinero, y los necesitados por un par de zapatos, y venderemos los desechos del trigo.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Amos 8:6
Verse 6. That we may buy the poor for silver] Buying their services for such a time, with just money enough to clear them from other creditors. And the needy for a pair of shoes] See chap. ii. 6.
And sell the refuse of the wheat!] Selling bad wheat and damaged flour to poor people as good, knowing that such cannot afford to prosecute them.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 6. That we may buy the poor for silver , etc.] Thus making them pay dear for their provisions, and using them in this fraudulent manner, by which they would not be able to support themselves and their families; they might purchase them and theirs for slaves, at so small a price as a piece of silver, or a single shekel, worth about half a crown; and this was their end and design in using them after this manner; (see Leviticus 25:39,40); and the needy for a pair of shoes ; (see Gill on “ Amos 2:6”); [yea], and sell the refuse of the wheat ; not only did they sell the poor grain and wheat at a dear rate, and in scanty measure, but the worst of it, and such as was not fit to make bread of, only to be given to the cattle; and, by reducing the poor to extreme poverty, they obliged them to take that of them at their own price. It may be rendered, “the fall of wheat” f219 ; that which fell under the sieve, when the wheat was sifted, as Aben Ezra, Kimchi, and Ben Melech, observe.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 4-10 - The rich and powerful of the land were the most guilty of oppression as well as the foremost in idolatry. They were weary of the restraint of the sabbaths and the new moons, and wished them over, because n common work might be done therein. This is the character of many wh are called Christians. The sabbath day and sabbath work are a burden to carnal hearts. It will either be profaned or be accounted a dull day But can we spend our time better than in communion with God? When employed in religious services, they were thinking of marketings. The were weary of holy duties, because their worldly business stood stil the while. Those are strangers to God, and enemies to themselves, wh love market days better than sabbath days, who would rather be sellin corn than worshipping God. They have no regard to man: those who have lost the savour of piety, will not long keep the sense of commo honesty. They cheat those they deal with. They take advantage of their neighbour's ignorance or necessity, in a traffic which nearly concern the labouring poor. Could we witness the fraud and covetousness, which in such numerous forms, render trading an abomination to the Lord, we should not wonder to see many dealers backward in the service of God But he who thus despises the poor, reproaches his Maker; as it regard Him, rich and poor meet together. Riches that are got by the ruin of the poor, will bring ruin on those that get them. God will remembe their sin against them. This speaks the case of such unjust, unmercifu men, to be miserable indeed, miserable for ever. There shall be terro and desolation every where. It shall come upon them when they littl think of it. Thus uncertain are all our creature-comforts an enjoyments, even life itself; in the midst of life we are in death What will be the wailing in the bitter day which follows sinful an sensual pleasures!
Original Hebrew
לקנות 7069 בכסף 3701 דלים 1800 ואביון 34 בעבור 5668 נעלים 5275 ומפל 4651 בר 1250 נשׁביר׃ 7666
