Proverbs 20:10
Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
King James Version
In Context
9Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
11Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:35Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
Deuteronomy 25:13Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
Proverbs 16:11A just weight and balance are the LORD’S: all the weights of the bag are his work.
Amos 8:4Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
Micah 6:11Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the 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 →