Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure [that is] abominable?
Ver. 10. Are there yet the treasures of wickedness] What yet? for all that ever I can say or do to the contrary? Though I cry out unto you by my word (and have set it on with my rod, that it might stick the better), Oh do not this abominable thing! is there yet unto every man a house of the wicked and treasures of wickedness (so some read it)? see Micah 2:2. See Trapp on " Mic 2:2 " The Vulgate reads it (and Gualther disliketh it not), Is there yet fire in the house of the wicked? sc. the fire of God's wrath? and treasures of wickedness, as fuel cast upon it, to consume all? see James 5:1,3. Treasures of wickedness profit not, Proverbs 10:2, since to heap up sin is to heap up wrath, Romans 2:5, and to rake together ill-gotten goods is to carry home a fardel of plaguey clothes, and death with them. Ephraim said, "Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance," Hosea 12:8. But in so doing, Ephraim fed upon the wind, Micah 6:1, yea, upon pestilential air; he daily increased lies and desolation, that is, such lying vanities as bring desolation and not consolation, desolationem potius quam consolationem (Aug.), as hale hell at the heels of them (as we see in the parable of that wretched rich man, Luk 16:19-31); Animam ipsam incendio gehennae mancipant, the fire that is in them shall feed upon their souls and flesh throughout all eternity. Out of doors, therefore, with these treasures of wickedness, by restoring them to the right owners, as Zaccheus did; and as Justinian the emperor, who would not put the vessels of the temple taken by Titus, and recovered from Gensericus, into the treasury, but restored them.
And the scant measure that is abominable?] Heb. the ephah of leanness, so called, both because it lacks its due proportion (modius macilentus), and makes men lean, full of wrath; q.d. you scant it to those you trade with, but God fills it up with his fierce wrath and indignation. See Amos 8:5. See Trapp on " Amo 8:5 "