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the Week of Proper 16 / Ordinary 21
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Bishop's Bible

Proverbs 16:11

A true wayght and ballaunce are the Lordes iudgement: all the wayghtes of the bagge are his worke.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Balances;   Honesty;   Integrity;   Measure;   Weights;   Thompson Chain Reference - Business Life;   Divine;   Just Weights;   Justice;   Justice-Injustice;   Measures;   Social Duties;   Virtues;   Weights;   The Topic Concordance - Belonging;   God;   Justice;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Bag;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Balances;   Honesty;   Proverbs, Book of;   Weights and Measures;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Balance;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Trade and Commerce;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Balances;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Balance;   Justice;   Scales;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Bag;   Balance;   Money;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Honest balances and scales are the Lord’s;all the weights in the bag are his concern.
Hebrew Names Version
Honest balances and scales are the LORD's; All the weights in the bag are his work.
King James Version
A just weight and balance are the Lord 's: all the weights of the bag are his work.
English Standard Version
A just balance and scales are the Lord 's; all the weights in the bag are his work.
New American Standard Bible
A just balance and scales belong to the LORD; All the weights of the bag are His concern.
New Century Version
The Lord wants honest balances and scales; all the weights are his work.
Amplified Bible
A just balance and [honest] scales are the LORD'S; All the weights of the bag are His concern [established by His eternal principles].
World English Bible
Honest balances and scales are Yahweh's; All the weights in the bag are his work.
Geneva Bible (1587)
A true weight & balance are of the Lord: all the weightes of the bagge are his worke.
Legacy Standard Bible
A just balance and scales belong to Yahweh;All the weights of the bag are His work.
Berean Standard Bible
Honest scales and balances are from the LORD; all the weights in the bag are His concern.
Contemporary English Version
The Lord doesn't like it when we cheat in business.
Complete Jewish Bible
The balance and scales of justice have their origin in Adonai ; all the weights in the bag are his doing.
Darby Translation
The just balance and scales are Jehovah's; all the weights of the bag are his work.
Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord wants all scales and balances to be right; he wants all business agreements to be fair.
George Lamsa Translation
The weight of a just balance is the LORDS judgment; all his works are just weights.
Good News Translation
The Lord wants weights and measures to be honest and every sale to be fair.
Lexham English Bible
A balance and scales of justice belong to Yahweh; all the weights of the bag are his work.
Literal Translation
A just scale and balances are to Jehovah, all the stones of the bag are His work.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
A true measure & a true balauce are ye LORDES, he maketh all weightes.
American Standard Version
A just balance and scales are Jehovah's; All the weights of the bag are his work.
Bible in Basic English
True measures and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are his work.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
A just balance and scales are the LORD'S; all the weights of the bag are His work.
King James Version (1611)
A iust weight and ballance are the Lords: all the weights of the bagge are his worke.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The poise of the balance is righteousness with the Lord; and his works are righteous measures.
English Revised Version
A just balance and scales are the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag are his work.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The domes of the Lord ben weiyte and a balaunce; and hise werkis ben alle the stoonys of the world.
Update Bible Version
A just balance and scales are Yahweh's; All the weights of the bag are his work.
Webster's Bible Translation
A just weight and balance [are] the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag [are] his work.
New English Translation
Honest scales and balances are from the Lord ; all the weights in the bag are his handiwork.
New King James Version
Honest weights and scales are the LORD's; All the weights in the bag are His work.
New Living Translation
The Lord demands accurate scales and balances; he sets the standards for fairness.
New Life Bible
What is fair in telling the weight of something belongs to the Lord. He cares about all the weights of the bag.
New Revised Standard
Honest balances and scales are the Lord 's; all the weights in the bag are his work.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The balance and scales of justice, belong to Yahweh, and, his handiwork, are all the weights of the bag.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Weight and balance are judgments of the Lord: and his work all the weights of the bag.
Revised Standard Version
A just balance and scales are the LORD's; all the weights in the bag are his work.
Young's Literal Translation
A just beam and balances [are] Jehovah's, His work [are] all the stones of the bag.
THE MESSAGE
God cares about honesty in the workplace; your business is his business.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
A just balance and scales belong to the LORD; All the weights of the bag are His concern.

Contextual Overview

11 A true wayght and ballaunce are the Lordes iudgement: all the wayghtes of the bagge are his worke.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

just: Proverbs 11:1, Proverbs 20:10, Proverbs 20:23, Leviticus 19:35, Leviticus 19:36, Deuteronomy 25:13-15, Ezekiel 45:10, Hosea 12:7, Amos 8:5, Micah 6:11

weight: Heb. stones

Reciprocal: Job 31:6 - Let me be weighed in an even balance Philippians 4:8 - are just 1 Thessalonians 4:6 - go

Cross-References

Genesis 17:19
Unto who God sayd: Sara thy wife shall beare thee a sonne in deede, & thou shalt call his name Isahac: and I wyll establishe my couenaunt with hym for an euerlastyng couenaunt [and] with his seede after hym.
Exodus 3:7
And the Lorde saide: I haue surely seene the trouble of my people which are in Egypt, and haue heard their crie from the face of their taske maisters: for I knowe their sorowes,
Exodus 3:9
Nowe therfore beholde the complaint of the chyldren of Israel is come vnto me: and I haue also seene the oppressio wherwith ye Egyptians oppressed them.
1 Samuel 1:20
For in processe of time it came to passe, that she conceaued, and bare a sonne, & called his name Samuel, [saying:] Because I haue asked him of the Lorde.
Job 38:41
Who prouideth meate for the rauen, when his young ones crye vnto God, and flee about for lacke of meate?
Psalms 22:24
For he hath not dispised nor abhorred the affliction of the poore: he hath not hyd his face from hym, but he hearde hym when he cryed vnto hym.
Isaiah 7:14
Therefore the Lorde hym selfe shall geue you a token: Beholde, a virgin shall conceaue and beare a sonne, and shall call his name Emmanuel.
Luke 1:13
But the Angel sayde vnto him: Feare not Zacharie, for thy prayer is hearde: and thy wyfe Elizabeth shall beare thee a sonne, & thou shalt cal his name Iohn.
Luke 1:31
For beholde, thou shalt conceaue in thy wombe, and beare a sonne, & shalt call his name Iesus.
Luke 1:63
And he asked for wrytyng tables, and wrote, saying, his name is Iohn. And they marueyled all.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

A just weight and balance [are] the Lord's,.... These are of his devising; what he has put into the heart, of men to contrive and make use of, for the benefit of mankind, for the keeping and maintaining truth and justice in commercial affairs; these are of his appointing, commanding, and approving, Leviticus 19:35;

all the weights of the bag [are] his work; or, "all the stones" h; greater or smaller, which were formerly used in weighing, and were kept in a bag for that purpose; these are by the Lord's appointment and order. This may be applied to the Scriptures of truth, which are of God; are the balance of the sanctuary, in which every doctrine is to be weighed and tried; what agrees with them is to be received, and what is found wanting is to be rejected. The Targum is,

"his works, all of them, are weights of truth.''

h אבני "lapides", Montanus, Vatablus, Piscator, Mercerus, Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See Proverbs 11:1 note. People are not to think that trade lies outside the divine law. God has commanded there also all that belongs to truth and right.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 16:11. All the weights of the bag are his — Alluding, probably, to the standard weights laid up in a bag in the sanctuary, and to which all weights in common use in the land were to be referred, in order to ascertain whether they were just: but some think the allusion is to the weights carried about by merchants in their girdles, by which they weigh the money, silver and gold, that they take in exchange for their merchandise. As the Chinese take no coin but gold and silver by weight, they carry about with them a sort of small steelyard, by which they weigh those metals taken in exchange.


 
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