Proverbs 20:10
Divers weights, and divers measures, an abomination to Yahweh, are they, both.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 cleansed my heart, I am pure from my sin?
11Even, by his doings, doth a youth make himself known, whether, pure and upright, be his work.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:35Ye shall not act perversely in giving judgment,—in measures of extent, in weights in measures of capacity:
Deuteronomy 25:13Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights,—a great and a small.
Proverbs 16:11The balance and scales of justice, belong to Yahweh, and, his handiwork, are all the weights of the bag.
Amos 8:4Hear this, ye who pant after the needy, and to make an end of the oppressed of the land:
Micah 6:11Shall I be pure with lawless balances? or with 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 →