Proverbs 16:11
Yahweh wants us to use scales that are correct; the weights in his bag are correct, because he made them.
Translation for Translators
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
10If God directs what a king says, what he decides is always right/fair.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:36use correct measuring sticks and scales and weights on the scales and measuring baskets and other measuring containers. I Yahweh, your God, who brought you out of Egypt, am giving you these laws.
Proverbs 11:1Yahweh detests people who use scales that do not weigh correctly; he is delighted with those who use correct weights on the scales.
Proverbs 20:23Yahweh detests those who use dishonest scales and weights that are not accurate/correct.
Hosea 12:7The merchants among you use scales that do not weigh correctly; they love/like to cheat people.
Micah 6:11Do you think that [RHQ] I should say nothing about people who use scales that do not weigh correctly, and who use weights that are not accurate?
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 →