Proverbs 20:11
Even, by his doings, doth a youth make himself known, whether, pure and upright, be his work.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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
10Divers weights, and divers measures, an abomination to Yahweh, are they, both.
12The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Yahweh hath made them, both.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 34:3And, in the eighth year of his reign, he, being yet a boy, he began to seek unto the God of David his father,-and, in the twelfth year, he began to purify Judah and Jerusalem, from the high places and the Sacred Stems, and the carved images and the molten images.
Psalms 58:3Lawless men have been estranged from birth, They have gone astray from their nativity, speaking falsehood;
Proverbs 22:15Foolishness, is bound up in the heart of a youth, the rod of correction, shall drive it far from him.
Luke 1:15For he shall be great before the Lord, and, wine and strong drink, in nowise may he drink, and, with Holy Spirit, shall he be filled, already, from his mother’s womb;
Luke 2:46And it came to pass, that, after three days, they found him in the temple, sitting amidst the teachers,—both hearkening unto them, and questioning them.
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 →