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Hosea 12:8
And Ephraim said, Now I have got wealth and much property; in all my works no sin may be seen in me.
Hosea 12:8 · Bible in Basic English
Hosea 12:8 in other translations
And 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.
And Ephraim boasts: “How rich I have become! I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors, they can find in me no iniquity that is sinful.”
Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich. I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won’t find in me any iniquity that is sin.”
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In context
5 Even the Lord, the God of armies; the Lord is his name.
6 So then, come back to your God; keep mercy and right, and be waiting at all times on your God.
7 As for Canaan, the scales of deceit are in his hands; he takes pleasure in twisted ways.
8 And Ephraim said, Now I have got wealth and much property; in all my works no sin may be seen in me.
9 But I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; I will give you tents for your living-places again as in the days of the holy meeting.
10 My word came to the ears of the prophets and I gave them visions in great number, and by the mouths of the prophets I made use of comparisons.
11 In Gilead there is evil. They are quite without value; in Gilgal they make offerings of oxen; truly their altars are like masses of stones in the hollows of a ploughed field.
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