8And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin.
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Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.
Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.
And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth.
There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-14)Here are intermixed, in these verses, I. Reproofs for sin. When God is coming forth to contend with a people, that he may demonstrate his own righteousness, he will demonstrate their unrighteousness. Ephraim was called to turn to his God and keep judgment (Hos. 12:6); now, to show that he had need of that call, he is charged with turning from his God by idolatry, and breaking the laws of justice a…
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