Osee 12:7
He is like Chanaan, there is a deceitful balance in his hand, he hath loved oppression.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Chanaan, in manu ejus statera dolosa, calumniam dilexit.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Χανάαν ἐν χειρὶ αὐτοῦ ζυγὸς ἀδικίας, καταδυναστεύειν ἠγάπησε.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Osee 12:8
- כְּנַ֗עַן בְּיָד֛וֹ מֹאזְנֵ֥י מִרְמָ֖ה לַעֲשֹׁ֥ק אָהֵֽב
Haydock's commentary
Chanaan. The Phœnicians were so called, and all merchants. Here the title is given reproachfully (Calmet) to all the posterity of Jacob. (Haydock)
None more ignominious could be used, Daniel xiii. 56. Thus Rome is styled Babylon.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.