Proverbs 20:11
A child may be understood by his interests: whether his works may be clean and upright.
Catholic Public Domain 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, diverse measures: both are abominable with God.
12The hearing ear and the seeing eye: the Lord has made them both.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 34:3Now in the eighth year of his reign, when he was still a boy, he began to seek the God of his father David. And in the twelfth year after he had begun to reign, he cleansed Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the sacred groves, and the idols, and the graven images.
Psalms 58:3Rescue me from those who work iniquity, and save me from men of blood.
Proverbs 22:15Foolishness has been bound to the heart of a child, and a rod of discipline shall cause it to flee.
Luke 1:15For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will not drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.
Luke 2:46And it happened that, after three days, they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, listening to 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 →