Proverbs 16:11
A just balance and scales belong to the Lord: his work are all the weights in the bag.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
A just weight and balance are the LORD’S: all the weights of the bag are his work.
In Context
Cross References
Leviticus 19:36Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the Lord your God, who have brought you forth out of the land of Egypt.
Proverbs 11:1Balances of deceit are an abomination of the Lord; but a full weight [obtaineth] his favor.
Proverbs 20:23Divers weights are an abomination of the Lord; and a deceitful balance is not good.
Hosea 12:7(12:8) But like a merchant, who hath the balances of deceit in his hand, loving to overreach,
Micah 6:11Can I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag [full] of deceptive weights?
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 16:11
The Duties of Kings. 10 A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresseth not in judgment. We wish this were always true as a proposition, and we ought to make it our prayer for kings, and all in authority, that a divine sentence may be in their lips, both in giving orders, that they may do that in wisdom, and in giving sentence, that they may do that in equity, both which are included in judgment, and that in neither their mouth may transgress, 1 Tim. ii. 1 . But it is often otherwise; and… Read the whole commentary →