Micah 6:10

Are there yet the treasures of wickedness the house of the wicked?.... There are; they continue there.

Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable? Are there yet - notwithstanding all my warnings.

Are there yet? after so many express laws peremptorily forbidding, so many examples of punishments on such, after so many reproofs, menaces, and exhortations by so many prophets, dare you still do so unjustly? Treasures of wickedness; gotten by injurious, oppressive courses, ill-gotten wealth; the wickedness wherewith they raked their wealth together is laid up with their wealth, as the like is said, . In the house of the wicked: none have thought of restoring their ill-gotten goods; the wicked fathers, who heaped them together, laid them up in their houses, and the children retain them; the house, i.e. family, of these do as their fathers, store up violence, and so do directly contrary to the first rule, , to do justly. The scant measure, which is less than standard; see ; by which these unrighteous ones did both offend against God, and cozen their chapmen. That is abominable; God abhors such injustice, 20:10,23 Deu 25:13-16. It is most hateful in his sight. Are there yet? after so many express laws peremptorily forbidding, so many examples of punishments on such, after so many reproofs, menaces, and exhortations by so many prophets, dare you still do so unjustly? That is abominable; God abhors such injustice, 20:10,23 Deu 25:13-16. It is most hateful in his sight.

Micah 6:10 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 "Micah 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, Luke 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.

(10) The scant measure.—Literally, the hateful ephah of leanness—i.e., less than it should be. The Jews were much addicted to the falsification of weights and measures. They made “the ephah small, and the shekel great, falsifying the balances by deceit” (Amos 8:5).

Verse 10. Are there yet the treasures of wickedness] Such as false balances and deceitful weights. See on Hosea 12:7. This shows that they were not DOING JUSTLY. They did not give to each his due.

10. The denunciation is couched in the form of questions, to prick the conscience of the guilty ones. Are there yet the treasures …] i.e. Does the oppressor go on heaping up unjustly acquired spoil? the scant measure] A particular measure is referred to, viz. the ephah (about three pecks, dry measure). The sin specified reminds us forcibly of Deuteronomy, where it is forbidden to have in one’s house ‘divers ephahs, a great and a small,’ and ‘a perfect and right ephah’ is prescribed (Deuteronomy 24:14-15). Amos, too, Micah’s senior, speaks of those who longed for the expiration of the sabbath, ‘that they might set forth wheat, making the ephah small’ (Amos 8:5).

Are there yet - Still after all the warnings and long-suffering of God, “the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked?” “Treasures of wickedness” are treasures gotten by wickedness; yet it