Proverbs 11:1
A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
2 When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
3 The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Dishonest scales are an abomination to the LORD, but an accurate weight is His delight.
- KJV
- A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
- WEB
- A false balance is an abomination to the LORD, but accurate weights are his delight.
- ASV
- A false balance is an abomination to Jehovah; But a just weight is his delight.
- DARBY
- A false balance is an abomination to Jehovah; but a just weight is his delight.
- BLB
- Scales of deceit [are] an abomination to YHWH, and a whole stone [is] His delight.
- ÅB
- Falsk vekt er en styggedom for Herren, men fullvektige lodder er ham til velbehag.
- OTB
- Herren avskyr falske vekter, men nøyaktige vekter er hans glede.
- B1930
- Falsk vekt er en vederstyggelighet for Herren, men fullvektige lodder er ham til velbehag.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Deuteronomy 25:13–16
Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
Read in contextProverbs 20:23
Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.
Read in contextProverbs 16:11
A just weight and balance are the LORD’s: all the weights of the bag are his work.
Read in contextLeviticus 19:35–36
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
Read in contextProverbs 20:10
Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
Read in contextHosea 12:7
He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
Read in contextAmos 8:5–6
Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
Read in contextEzekiel 45:10–12
Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
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