Proverbs 20:10
A stone and a stone, an ephah and an ephah, Even both of them [are] an abomination to Jehovah.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
In Context
9Who saith, 'I have purified my heart, I have been cleansed from my sin?'
11Even by his actions a youth maketh himself known, Whether his work be pure or upright.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:35'Ye do not do perversity in judgment, in mete-yard, in weight, or in liquid measure;
Deuteronomy 25:13'Thou hast not in thy bag a stone and a stone, a great and a small.
Proverbs 16:11A just beam and balances [are] Jehovah's, His work [are] all the stones of the bag.
Amos 8:4Hear this, ye who are swallowing up the needy, To cause to cease the poor of the land,
Micah 6:11Do I reckon [it] pure with balances of wickedness? And with a bag of deceitful stones?
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 →