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Amos 6:12

12  Do horses run on rocks?

Does one plow there1 with oxen?

uBut you have turned justice into vpoison

uand the fruit of righteousness into wormwood2

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Amos 6:12 — The New International Version (NIV)

12 Do horses run on the rocky crags?

Does one plow the sea with oxen?

But you have turned justice into poison

and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness—

Amos 6:12 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

12 Shall horses run upon the rock?

Will one plow there with oxen?

For ye have turned judgment into gall,

And the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:

Amos 6:12 — New Living Translation (NLT)

12 Can horses gallop over boulders?

Can oxen be used to plow them?

But that’s how foolish you are when you turn justice into poison

and the sweet fruit of righteousness into bitterness.

Amos 6:12 — The New King James Version (NKJV)

12 Do horses run on rocks?

Does one plow there with oxen?

Yet you have turned justice into gall,

And the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,

Amos 6:12 — New Century Version (NCV)

12 Horses do not run on rocks,

and people do not plow rocks with oxen.

But you have changed fairness into poison;

you have changed what is right into a bitter taste.

Amos 6:12 — American Standard Version (ASV)

12 Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? that ye have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood;

Amos 6:12 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

12 Shall horses run upon the rock? will men plough thereon with oxen? For ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,

Amos 6:12 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

12 Do horses run on rocks? 

Does a farmer plow the sea with oxen? 

Yet, you have turned justice into something deadly 

and what is righteous into poison. 

Amos 6:12 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

12 Do horses gallop on the cliffs;

does anyone plow there with oxen?

Yet you have turned justice into poison

and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood —

Amos 6:12 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

12 Do horses run on rocks?

Does one plow the sea with oxen?

But you have turned justice into poison

and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—

Amos 6:12 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)

12 Do horses run on rocks, or does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood!

Amos 6:12 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

12 Horses don’t run on rocky ground.

People don’t plow there with oxen.

But you have turned fair treatment into poison.

You have turned the fruit of right living into bitterness.

Amos 6:12 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)

12 Do horses run on rocks?

Or does one plow them with oxen?

Yet you have turned justice into poison

And the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,


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