Proverbs 20:10
Diverse weights, diverse measures: both are abominable with God.
Catholic Public Domain Version
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: “My heart is clean. I am pure from sin?”
11A child may be understood by his interests: whether his works may be clean and upright.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:35Do not be willing to accomplish iniquity in judgment, in lengths, in weights, in quantities.
Deuteronomy 25:13You shall not have differing weights, greater and lesser, in your bag.
Proverbs 16:11Weights and scales are judgments of the Lord. And all the stones in the bag are his work.
Amos 8:4Hear this, you who crush the poor and who make those in need of land to do without.
Micah 6:11Shall I justify unfaithful balances, and the deceitful weighing of a small bag?
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 →