Those who turn justice into wormwood(A)
also throw righteousness to the ground.

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There are those who turn justice into bitterness(A)
    and cast righteousness(B) to the ground.(C)

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12 Do horses gallop on the cliffs?
Does anyone plow there with oxen?[a]
Yet you have turned justice into poison(A)
and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 6:12 Some emend to plow the sea

12 Do horses run on the rocky crags?
    Does one plow the sea[a] with oxen?
But you have turned justice into poison(A)
    and the fruit of righteousness(B) into bitterness(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 6:12 With a different word division of the Hebrew; Masoretic Text plow there