Proverbs 20:11
By his inclinations a child is known, if his works be clean and right.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 and diverse measures, both are abominable before God.
12The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made them both.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 34:3And in the eighth year of his reign, when he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of his father David: and in the twelfth year after he began to reign, he cleansed Juda and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the idols, and the graven things.
Psalms 58:3For in your heart you work iniquity: your hands forge injustice in the earth.
Proverbs 22:15Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, and the rod of correction shall drive it away.
Luke 1:15For he shall be great before the Lord; and shall drink no wine nor strong drink: and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.
Luke 2:46And it came to pass, that, after three days, they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, hearing them, and asking them questions.
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 →