Proverbs 20:11
Even a young man is known by his actions— whether his conduct is pure and upright.
Berean Standard Bible
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
10Differing weights and unequal measures — both are detestable to the LORD.
12Ears that hear and eyes that see— the LORD has made them both.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 34:3In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images.
Psalms 58:3The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth.
Proverbs 22:15Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
Luke 1:15for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He shall never take wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother’s womb.
Luke 2:46Finally, after three days they found Him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to 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 →