Proverbs 20:11
Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
Updated King James Version
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, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
12The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD has made even both of them.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 34:3For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.
Psalms 58:3The wicked are cut off from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
Proverbs 22:15Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
Luke 1:15For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Spirit, (o. pneuma) even from his mother's womb.
Luke 2:46And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, 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 →