Leviticus 25:13-17: in context

This is part of the law of Jubilee, the fiftieth year when debts were released and land returned to its original family. In these verses God regulates buying and selling in light of it: when you buy or sell property, you are really only trading the number of harvests until the next Jubilee, so price it fairly, more years more cost, fewer years less. Twice in five verses comes the command, you shall not wrong one another, and it is anchored not in market forces but in this: you shall fear your God, for I am the LORD.

What is quietly radical here is that the ordinary business of buying and selling is placed directly under the fear of God. There is no secular zone in Israel's economy, no realm of pure transaction where you are free to get the better of your neighbor because that is just how deals work. The land itself was never truly sold, because in the Jubilee it went home; you only ever bought its harvests for a term. That single provision undercuts the whole game of accumulating land forever and building dynasties of wealth while others sink into permanent poverty. And the reason given is not economic efficiency but reverence: do not wrong one another, because you fear your God. How I price things, how I bargain, whether I press an advantage over someone with less leverage, is not morally neutral; it is done in the presence of the LORD who watches the scales.

In my dealings and bargains, do I ever press an advantage I could get away with, forgetting that the command not to wrong my neighbor is grounded in the fear of God?