Proverbs 20:10
Diverse weights, and diverse measures, both of them alike are an abomination to LORD.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
In Context
9Who can say, I have made my heart clean. I am pure from my sin?
11Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:35Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.
Deuteronomy 25:13Thou shall not have in thy bag diverse weights, a great and a small.
Proverbs 16:11A just balance and scales are LORD's. All the weights of the bag are his work.
Amos 8:4Hear this, O ye who would swallow up a needy man, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
Micah 6:11Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 20:10
9 Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? This question is not only a challenge to any man in the world to prove himself sinless, whatever he pretends, but a lamentation of the corruption of mankind, even that which remains in the best. Alas! Who can say, "I am sinless?" Observe, 1. Who the persons are that are excluded from these pretensions—all, one as well as another. Here, in this imperfect state, no person whatsoever can pretend to be without sin. Adam could say so in innocency, and… Read the whole commentary →