Micah 6:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?

Shall I count them pure - literally, 'Shall I be pure with,' etc. With the pure, God shows Himself pure; but with the froward, God shows Himself froward (Psalms 18:26). Men often are changeable in their judgments, But God, in the case of the impure, who use 'wicked balances,' cannot be pure - i:e., cannot deal with them as He would with the pure. Vatablus and Henderson make the "I" to be 'any one:' 'Can I (i:e., one) be innocent with wicked balances?' But as "I" in Micah 6:13 refers to Yahweh, it must refer to Him also here.

And with the bag of deceitful weights? - in which weights used to be carried as well as money (Deuteronomy 25:13; Proverbs 16:11).

Micah 6:11

11 Shall I count them purec with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?