Proverbs 20:10
The Lord hates both dishonest weights and dishonest measures.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
In Context
9Who can claim, “I've made sure my conscience is clean; I've purified myself from sin”?
11Even children reveal what they're like by what they do, whether their actions are good and right.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:35Don't use dishonest weights and measures.
Deuteronomy 25:13Don't have two different measuring weights in your bag, one that's heavy and one that's light.
Proverbs 16:11Accurate scales and balances are important to the Lord. He has determined all the weights in the bag.
Amos 8:4Listen to this, you who trample down the needy, and wipe out the poor of the land.
Micah 6:11How can I accept those who use unfair scales and dishonest weights?
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 →