Proverbs 20:10
A stone and a stone, an ephah and an ephah, || Even both of them [are] an abomination to YHWH.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
In Context
9Who says, “I have purified my heart, || I have been cleansed from my sin?”
11Even by his actions a youth makes himself known, || Whether his work is pure or upright.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:35You do not do perversity in the judgment, in the measure, in the weight, and in the liquid measure;
Deuteronomy 25:13You do not have [both] a great stone and a small stone in your bag.
Proverbs 16:11A just beam and balances [are] YHWH’s, || All the stones of the bag [are] His work.
Amos 8:4Hear this, you who are swallowing up the needy, || To cause the poor of the land to cease,
Micah 6:11Do I reckon [it] pure with balances of wickedness? And with a bag of deceitful stones?
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 →