Proverbs 20:11
Even by his actions a youth makes himself known, || Whether his work is pure or upright.
Literal Standard Version
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
10A stone and a stone, an ephah and an ephah, || Even both of them [are] an abomination to YHWH.
12A hearing ear, and a seeing eye—YHWH has even made both of them.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 34:3And in the eighth year of his reign (and he [is] yet a youth), he has begun to seek for the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he has begun to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the Asherim, and the carved images, and the molten images.
Psalms 58:3The wicked have been estranged from the womb, || They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.
Proverbs 22:15Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, || The rod of discipline puts it far from him.
Luke 1:15for he will be great before the LORD, and wine and strong drink he may not drink, and he will be full of the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb;
Luke 2:46And it came to pass, after three days they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both hearing them and questioning them,
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 →