Proverbs 20:10
8 A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
9 Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
11 Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Differing weights and unequal measures — both are detestable to the LORD.
- KJV
- Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
- WEB
- Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to the LORD.
- ASV
- Diverse weights, and diverse measures, Both of them alike are an abomination to Jehovah.
- DARBY
- Divers weights, divers measures, even both of them are abomination to Jehovah.
- BLB
- A stone and a stone, an ephah and an ephah—the two of them alike [are] an abomination to YHWH.
- ÅB
- To slags vektsteiner og to slags mål -- begge deler er en styggedom for Herren.
- OTB
- Forskjellige vekter og forskjellige mål— begge er avskyelige for Herren.
- B1930
- To slags vektstener og to slags mål - begge deler er en vederstyggelighet for Herren.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Proverbs 20:23
Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.
Read in contextProverbs 11:1
A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
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
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 25:13–15
Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
Read in contextMicah 6:10–11
Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?
Read in contextAmos 8:4–7
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
Read in contextRevelation 21:8
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
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