Verse Comparison: Amos 8:6
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?
Amplified® Bible
That we may buy [into slavery] the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals; yes, and sell the refuse of the wheat [as if it were good grade]?
Contemporary English Version
and mix dust in the grain. Those who are needy and poor don't have any money. We will make them our slaves for the price of a pair of sandals."
Darby English Version
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.
Good News Bible
We can sell worthless wheat at a high price. We'll find someone poor who can't pay his debts, not even the price of a pair of sandals, and we'll buy him as a slave."
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?
New American Standard Bible
So as to buy the helpless for money And the needy for a pair of sandals, And {that} we may sell the refuse of the wheat?"
New International Version
buying the poor with silver
and the needy for a pair of sandals,
selling even the sweepings with the wheat.
New King James Version
That we may buy the poor for silver,
And the needy for a pair of sandals—
Even sell the bad wheat?"
N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
So as to buy the helpless for money And the needy for a pair of sandals, And that we may sell the refuse of the wheat?"
Revised Standard Version
that we may buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the refuse of the wheat?"
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.
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