Simple verse list for HOS 12:7

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Original HOS 12:8: Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Narrator (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) A merchant has false scales in his hands. ⇔ ≈ He loves to oppress.

OET-LV (HOS 12:8) [fn] A _merchant in_his/its_hand balances _of deceit who_to_defraud he _loves.

ULT A merchant—in his hand, are scales of deceit— ⇔ he loves to oppress.

UST ⇔ But the merchants among you use dishonest scales; ⇔ they love to cheat people.

BSB & MSB A merchant loves to defraud ⇔ with dishonest scales in his hands.

OEB ⇔ A merchant uses false scales: ⇔ They love to defraud.

WEBBE & WMBB ⇔ A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. ⇔ He loves to defraud.

NET The businessmen love to cheat; ⇔ they use dishonest scales.

LSV Canaan! In his hand [are] balances of deceit! He has loved to oppress.

FBV A merchant who holds in his hands dishonest scales loves to swindle.

T4T ⇔ The merchants among you use scales that do not weigh correctly; ⇔ they love/like to cheat people.

LEB • The trader, in his hand are scales of deceit;[fn] • he loves to oppress.

BBE As for Canaan, the scales of deceit are in his hands; he takes pleasure in twisted ways.

Moff Swindler! he loves to practise fraud, ⇔ the false scales in his hand.

JPS (HOS 12:8) (12-9) And Ephraim said: 'Surely I am become rich, I have found me wealth; in all my labours they shall find in me no iniquity that were sin.'

ASV He is a trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

DRA He is like Chanaan, there is a deceitful balance in his hand, he hath loved oppression.

YLT Canaan! in his hand [are] balances of deceit! To oppress he hath loved.

Drby [He is] a merchant, balances of deceit are in his hand; he loveth to oppress.

RV He is a trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
(He is a trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth/loves to oppress.)

SLT Canaan in his hand, the balances of deceit: he loved to oppress.

Wbstr He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

KJB-1769 ¶ He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.[fn][fn]
(¶ He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth/loves to oppress.)

KJB-1611 ¶ He is a [fn]merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: hee loueth to [fn]oppresse.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above apart from footnotes)

Bshps He is Chanaan, the ballaunces of deceipt are in his hande, he loueth to oppresse.
(He is Canaan, the balances of deceit are in his hand, he loveth/loves to oppress.)

Gnva He is Canaan: the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loueth to oppresse.
(He is Canaan: the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth/loves to oppress.)

Cvdl But the marchaunt hath a false weight in his honde, he hath a pleasure to occupie extorcion.
(But the merchant hath/has a false weight in his hand, he hath/has a pleasure to occupy extortion.)

Wycl Chanaan louyde fals caleng, a gileful balaunce in his hond.
(Canaan loved false claim, a guileful balance in his hand.)

Luth (HOS 12:8) Aber der Kaufmann hat eine falsche Waage in seiner Hand und betrügt gerne.
(But the/of_the merchant has a/one false scale in his hand and cheats/deceives gladly/willingly.)

ClVg Chanaan, in manu ejus statera dolosa, calumniam dilexit.
(Canaan, in/into/on by_hand his/her balance(n)/scales deceitful, slander he_loved.)

UHB 8 כְּנַ֗עַן בְּ⁠יָד֛⁠וֹ מֹאזְנֵ֥י מִרְמָ֖ה לַ⁠עֲשֹׁ֥ק אָהֵֽב׃ ‡

BrLXX (HOS 12:8) Χαναὰν, ἐν χειρὶ αὐτοῦ ζυγὸς ἀδικίας, καταδυναστεύειν ἠγάπησε.

BrTr (HOS 12:8) As for Chanaan, in his hand is a balance of unrighteousness: he has loved to tyrannise.