The people curse him who holds back grain, but a blessing is on the head of him who sells it.
The blessing of him who was about to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Now Joseph was governor over the land. He was the one who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brothers came and bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground.
Hear this, you who trample on the needy and bring the poor of the land to an end, saying, “When will the new moon be over, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, that we may make the ephah small and the shekel great and deal deceitfully with false balances, that we may buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and sell the chaff of the wheat?”
Whoever says to the wicked, “You are in the right,” will be cursed by peoples, abhorred by nations,
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