Proverbs 16:11
Weight and balance are judgments of the Lord: and his work all the weights of the bag.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
A just weight and balance are the LORD’S: all the weights of the bag are his work.
In Context
10Divination is in the lips of the king, his mouth shall not err in judgment.
12They that act wickedly are abominable to the king: for the throne is established by justice.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:36Let the balance be just and the weights equal, the bushel just, and the sextary equal. I am the Lord your God, that brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Proverbs 11:1A deceitful balance is an abomination before the Lord: and a just weight is his will.
Proverbs 20:23Diverse weights are an abomination before the Lord: a deceitful balance is not good.
Hosea 12:7He is like Chanaan, there is a deceitful balance in his hand, he hath loved oppression.
Micah 6:11As yet there is a fire in the house of the wicked, the treasures of iniquity, and a scant measure full of wrath.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 16:11
The Duties of Kings. 10 A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresseth not in judgment. We wish this were always true as a proposition, and we ought to make it our prayer for kings, and all in authority, that a divine sentence may be in their lips, both in giving orders, that they may do that in wisdom, and in giving sentence, that they may do that in equity, both which are included in judgment, and that in neither their mouth may transgress, 1 Tim. ii. 1 . But it is often otherwise; and… Read the whole commentary →