Proverbs 20:10
Diverse weights and diverse measures, both are abominable before God.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
In Context
9Who can say: My heart is clean, I am pure from sin?
11By his inclinations a child is known, if his works be clean and right.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:35Do not any unjust thing in judgment, in rule, in weight, or in measure.
Deuteronomy 25:13Thou shalt not have divers weights in thy bag, a greater and a less:
Proverbs 16:11Weight and balance are judgments of the Lord: and his work all the weights of the bag.
Amos 8:4Hear this, you that crush the poor, and make the needy of the land to fail,
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 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 →