Amos 8:6

We’re eager to trade silver for the poor, ¹  a pair of sandals ²  for the needy! We want to mix in some chaff with the grain!” ³ 

biblegateway Amo 8:6

buying the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the sweepings with the wheat.

biblegateway Amo 8:6

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?"

biblegateway Amo 8:6

And you mix the wheat you sell with chaff swept from the floor! Then you enslave poor people for a debt of one piece of silver or a pair of sandals.

biblegateway Amo 8:6

You exploit the poor, using them--and then, when they're used up, you discard them.

SABDAweb Amo 8:6

Getting the poor for silver, and him who is in need for the price of two shoes, and taking a price for the waste parts of the grain.

bibleoremus Amo 8:6

buying the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, and selling the sweepings of the wheat."

biblegateway Amo 8:6

That we may buy the poor for silver, And the needy for a pair of sandals––Even sell the bad wheat?"

biblegateway Amo 8:6

We’re eager to trade silver for the poor, ¹  a pair of sandals ²  for the needy! We want to mix in some chaff with the grain!” ³ 

¹ tn Heb “to buy the poor for silver.”

¹ sn The expression trade silver for the poor refers to the slave trade.

² tn See the note on the word “sandals” in 2:6.

³ tn Heb “The chaff of the grain we will sell.”