Proverbs 20:11
Even children show by what they do whether they are good or not; they show whether ◄what they do/their behavior► is honest and right or not.
Translation for Translators
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
10Yahweh detests people who use weights that are not right and measures that are not correct.
12Two of the things that Yahweh has created for us are ears to hear things and eyes to see things.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 34:3When he had been ruling for almost eight years, while he was still a young man, he began to worship God like his ancestor King David had done. Four years later, he began to get rid of all the pagan shrines on hilltops in Jerusalem and in other places in Judah, and the poles to honor the goddess Asherah, and the carved idols and statues of gods.
Psalms 58:3Wicked people do wrong things and tell lies from the time that they are born [DOU].
Proverbs 22:15Children [SYN] naturally do things that are foolish, but if you punish/spank them [PRS], they will ◄stop doing foolish things/learn to behave as they should►.
Luke 1:15God will consider him to be very important. He must never drink wine or any other alcoholic drink, in order that he will be completely dedicated to God. He will be controlled by the Holy Spirit {The Holy Spirit will control him} from before he is born.
Luke 2:46Two days later, they found him. He was in the Temple courtyard, sitting with the Jewish religious teachers. He was listening to what they said, and he was asking them 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 →