Proverbs 20:11
Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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
10Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them alike are an abomination to the LORD.
12The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 34:3For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the Asherim, and the graven images, and the molten images.
Psalms 58:3(58-4) The wicked are estranged from the womb; the speakers of lies go astray as soon as they are born.
Proverbs 22:15Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it 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 →