¹⁴ “It’s no good, it’s no good!” says the buyer—
    then goes off and boasts about the purchase.

⁷ The merchant uses dishonest scales^(A)
    and loves to defraud.
⁸ Ephraim boasts,^(B)
    “I am very rich; I have become wealthy.^(C)
With all my wealth they will not find in me
    any iniquity or sin.”

¹⁰ Is there anything of which one can say,
    “Look! This is something new”?
It was here already, long ago;
    it was here before our time.