Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness;
⛓ Read Amos 6 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Amos's rhetorical 'you have turned... the fruit of righteousness into wormwood' is a candidate source for the precise phrase 'fruit of righteousness.' The exact word-pair appears here, raising volume, but the contexts differ sharply (judgment vs. blessing), weakening coherence; offered as a contested verbal parallel.
Low confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Amos's complaint that the people 'have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood' is the prophetic inverse of James's peaceful harvest of righteousness — a faint contrastive echo.
Low confidence