Proverbs 20:11
Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
In Context
10Diverse weights, and diverse measures, both of them alike are an abomination to LORD.
12The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, LORD has made even both of them.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 34:3For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father. And in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the Asherim, and the graven im
Psalms 58:3The wicked are estranged from the womb. They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
Proverbs 22:15Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, [but] the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
Luke 1:15For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he should, no, not drink wine and strong drink. And he will be filled of Holy Spirit, even from his mother's belly.
Luke 2:46And it came to pass after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both hearing them, and questioning them.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 20:11
10 Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the Lord . See here, 1. The various arts of deceiving that men have, all which evils the love of money is the root of. In paying and receiving money, which was then commonly done by the scale, they had divers weights, an under-weight for what they paid and an over-weight for what they received; in delivering out and taking in goods they had divers measures, a scanty measure to sell by and a large measure to buy by. This was done wrong… Read the whole commentary →