Proverbs 20:11
A childe also is knowen by his doings, whether his worke be pure and right.
Geneva Bible 1599
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
10Diuers weightes, and diuers measures, both these are euen abomination vnto the Lord.
12The Lord hath made both these, euen the eare to heare, and the eye to see.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 34:3And in the eight yeere of his reigne (when he was yet a childe) he began to seeke after the God of Dauid his father: and in the twelft yeere he began to purge Iudah, and Ierusalem from the hie places, and the groues, and the carued images, and molten images:
Psalms 58:3The wicked are strangers from ye wombe: euen from the belly haue they erred, and speake lyes.
Proverbs 22:15Foolishnesse is bounde in the heart of a childe: but the rodde of correction shall driue it away from him.
Luke 1:15For he shalbe great in the sight of the Lord, and shall neither drinke wine, nor strong drinke: and he shalbe filled with the holy Ghost, euen from his mothers wombe.
Luke 2:46And it came to passe three dayes after, that they found him in the Temple, sitting in the mids of the doctours, both hearing them, and 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 →