Proverbs 20:10
Unequal weights and unequal measures, they are all disgusting to the Lord.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
In Context
9Who is able to say, I have made my heart clean, I am free from my sin?
11Even a child may be judged by his doings, if his work is free from sin and if it is right.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:35Do not make false decisions in questions of yard-sticks and weights and measures.
Deuteronomy 25:13Do not have in your bag different weights, a great and a small;
Proverbs 16:11True measures and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are his work.
Amos 8:4Give ear to this, you who are crushing the poor, and whose purpose is to put an end to those who are in need in the land,
Micah 6:11Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment?
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 →