Matthew Poole and continuators on Micah 6:12

12 For the rich men thereof are full of violence , and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies , and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth .

This is given as an evidence of the truth of the charge, and of the justness of the resolution God had declared to punish them.

Who of all men had lest temptation to deal unjustly, they were so well provided for, that without a Trade they might live, and in Trading they should have been content with honest gain; They should have been examples of charity and bounty, but these are the men deepest in this guilt.

Of Ierusalem, Samaria, and of every Traded City in the Land.

Full of principles, practices, and fruits of violence and rapine, their minds inclined to cheatings and dishonesty, their practices managed with fraud and falshood, and their riches heapt up through violence.

The disease is universal, not some few rich men, but they that dwell in the City, are wholly oppression, or perhaps thus, who come to dwell among them, soon catch the disease, and learn these wayes.

O[illegible: 1 letter] all the Cities of the Land of Canaan.

Have accustomed themselves to speak falshood, there is no truth in their affirmations, or negations.

There's not a man of plain heartedness, integrity and honesty among them. So David complains of his times. Psal. 12.2, 5.

Marginal references: Jer. 9.8.