Proverbs 20:11
Even a na'ar (child) is known by his ways, 1 whether his conduct be pure, and whether it be yashar (right). 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
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
10Differing weights, and differing measures, 1 both of them are alike to'evah to Hashem. 1
12The hearing ozen, and the seeing ayin, 1 Hashem hath made even both of them. 1
Cross References
2 Chronicles 34:3For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet na'ar (young), he began to seek after Elohei Dovid Aviv; and in the twelfth year he began to make tahor Yehudah and Yerushalayim from the high places, and the Asherim, and the pesilim, and the massekhot (molten images).
Psalms 58:3No, in lev (heart) ye work wickedness; 1 ye weigh out the chamas (violence) of your hands in Ha'Aretz. 1
Proverbs 22:15Folly is bound in the lev na'ar, 1 but the shevet musar (rod of correction) shall drive it far from him. 1
Luke 1:15And he will be gadol before Hashem, and he will not drink yayin or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Ruach Hakodesh from the womb of his Em (mother), + 1:15 Num 6:3; Lv 10:9; Judg 13:4; Jer 1:5
Luke 2:46And it came about, that after shlosha yamim (three days) they found him in the courts of the Beis HaMikdash, sitting in the midst of the rabbis, both listening to them and asking them she'elot (kashes, questions).
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 →