Proverbs 20:10
Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to the LORD.
World Messianic 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 made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin”?
11Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:35“‘You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.
Deuteronomy 25:13You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, one heavy and one light.
Proverbs 16:11Honest balances and scales are the LORD’s; all the weights in the bag are his work.
Amos 8:4Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
Micah 6:11Shall I tolerate dishonest scales, and a bag of deceitful weights?
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 →