Proverbs 20:11
A youth when in company with a godly man, will be restrained in his devices, and then his way will be straight.
Brenton Septuagint
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
12The ear hears, and the eye sees: even both of them are the Lord's work.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 34:3And in the eighth year of his reign, and he being yet a youth, he began to seek the Lord God of his father David: and in the twelfth year of his reign he began to purge Juda and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the ornaments for the altars, and the molten images.
Psalms 58:3Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.
Proverbs 22:15Folly is attached to the heart of a child, but the rod and instruction are then far from him.
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 →