Proverbs 20:10
Differing weights and unequal measures— 1 Yahweh hates them both. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
In Context
9Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure; 1 I am clean from my sin”? 1
11Even a youth is known by his actions, 1 by whether his conduct is pure and upright. 1
Cross References
Leviticus 19:35Do not use false measures when measuring length, weight, or quantity.
Deuteronomy 25:13You must not have in your bag different weights, a large and a small.
Proverbs 16:11Honest scales come from Yahweh; 1 all the weights in the bag are his work. 1
Amos 8:4Listen to this, you who trample the needy 1 and remove the poor of the land.
Micah 6:11Should I consider a person to be innocent if he uses fraudulent scales, 1 with a bag of deceptive weights? 1
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 →