Amos 6:6
That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
Note d'étude
Study Note
Amos' indictment of the Samarian elite who 'drink wine in bowls and anoint themselves with the chief ointments but are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph' captures the relationship between sensory excess and moral anesthesia that runs through his prophecy. The bowls (mizraq) were cultic vessels normally used for temple libations — using them as drinking vessels represents either literal ritual transgression or a metaphor for consuming what should be consecrated. The 'affliction of Joseph' refers to the suffering of the northern kingdom's poor (described in 2:6–8; 4:1–3; 8:4–6) — the elite's numbed indifference to this suffering while enjoying luxury is the sin's essence. The verse anticipates Luke 16's Dives-and-Lazarus parable in its anatomy of how prosperity produces social blindness.
Autres traductions
that drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief oils; but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
Who are drinking with bowls of wine, And <FI>with<Fi> chief perfumes anoint <FI>themselves<Fi> , And have not been pained for the breach of Joseph.
Drinking wine in basins, rubbing themselves with the best oils; but they have no grief for the destruction of Joseph.
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