Proverbs 20:10
Yahweh detests people who use weights that are not right and measures that are not correct.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
In Context
Cross References
Leviticus 19:35‘When you are measuring things, to see how long they are or how much they weigh or how many there are,
Deuteronomy 25:13“ When you are buying or selling things, do not try to cheat people by having two kinds of weights, one which you use when you buy something and one which you use when you sell something, and two kinds of measuring baskets, one which you use when you buy something and one which you use when you sell something.
Proverbs 16:11Yahweh wants us to use scales that are correct; the weights in his bag are correct, because he made them.
Amos 8:4It is as though you people trample on needy people, and you destroy the poor 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 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 →