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Proverbs 11:1
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The Lord detests the use of dishonest scales, but he delights in accurate weights.
A false balance is disgusting to Yahweh; But a just weight is his delight.
The Lord hates dishonest scales, but he is pleased with honest weights.
The Lord abhors dishonest scales, but an accurate weight is his delight.
A false balance [is] abomination to the LORD: but a just weight [is] his delight.
A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, But accurate weights are his delight.
A false balance and dishonest business practices are extremely offensive to the LORD, But an accurate scale is His delight.
A false balance is an abomination to the Lord , but a just weight is his delight.
A gileful balaunce is abhominacioun anentis God; and an euene weiyte is his wille.
A FALSE balance is an abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
Dishonest scales are an abomination to the LORD, but an accurate weight is His delight.
The Lord hates anyone who cheats, but he likes everyone who is honest.
A false balance is an abomination to Jehovah; But a just weight is his delight.
Scales of deceit are hated by the Lord, but a true weight is his delight.
False scales are an abomination to Adonai , but accurate weights please him.
A false balance is an abomination to Jehovah; but a just weight is his delight.
The Lord hates false scales, but he loves accurate weights.
A false balance is an abomination to the LORD; but a perfect weight is His delight.
A false ballance is abomination to the Lord: but a iust weight is his delight.
The Lord hates a false weight, but a true weight is His joy.
A false balance is an abomination to the Lord , but an accurate weight is his delight.
False balances are an abomination vnto the Lord: but a perfite weight pleaseth him.
FALSE scales are an abomination to the LORD; but just weights are his delight.
The Lord hates people who use dishonest scales. He is happy with honest weights.
A deceptive balance, is an abomination to Yahweh, but, a full weight, is his delight.
A deceitful balance is an abomination before the Lord: and a just weight is his will.
A false balance is an abomination to the LORD, but a just weight is his delight.
A false ballaunce is an abomination vnto the Lorde: but a true wayght pleaseth him.
False balances are an abomination before the Lord: but a just weight is acceptable unto him.
Dishonest scales are detestable to the Lord,
A false balance is an abomination to the LORD, But accurate weights are his delight.
A false balance is abomination to the Lord : but a just weight is his delight.
Balances of deceit are an abomination of Yahweh, but an accurate weight delights him.
False balances are hateful to Jehovah, but a perfect stone is His delight.
Balances of deceit [are] an abomination to Jehovah, And a perfect weight [is] His delight.
A false balaunce is an abhominacion vnto the LORDE, but a true weight pleaseth him.
God hates cheating in the marketplace; he loves it when business is aboveboard.
A false balance is an abomination to the LORD, But a just weight is His delight.
A false balance is an abomination to the LORD, But a just weight is His delight.
A deceptive balance is an abomination to Yahweh,But a just weight is His delight.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
A false balance is: Heb. Balances of deceit, are, Proverbs 16:11, Proverbs 20:10, Proverbs 20:23, Leviticus 19:35, Leviticus 19:36, Deuteronomy 25:13-16, Hosea 12:7, Amos 8:5, Amos 8:6, Micah 6:10, Micah 6:11
a just weight: Heb. a perfect stone, Proverbs 16:11, Ezekiel 45:10-12
Reciprocal: Exodus 20:15 - General Deuteronomy 17:1 - for that Deuteronomy 25:16 - all that do Job 22:3 - any pleasure Psalms 37:23 - delighteth Proverbs 6:16 - an Proverbs 12:22 - but Proverbs 17:15 - abomination Proverbs 26:24 - deceit 1 Corinthians 6:9 - unrighteous Philippians 4:8 - are just 1 Thessalonians 4:6 - go
Cross-References
In that day five cities in the land of Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear by the Lord of hosts; one will be called the City of Destruction. [fn]
"For then I will restore to the peoples a pure language, That they all may call on the name of the LORD, To serve Him with one accord.
And when this sound occurred, the multitude came together, and were confused, because everyone heard them speak in his own language.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
A false balance [is] abomination to the Lord,.... Under which are included all false weights and measures, and all fraudulent practices in commerce and dealing; which are forbidden by the Lord, and are abominable to him, as being injurious to the estates and properties of men: and more especially must be abominable in professors of religion, as being contrary to the grace of God; for though there may be common honesty where there is not the grace of God, yet there cannot be the true grace of God where there is not honesty; for the grace of God teaches to deny all such worldly lusts;
but a just weight [is] his delight; or a "perfect stone" c; the ancient practice being to make use of stones for weights; Now to give just weight, and also just measure, and to do justly in all civil dealings with men, is what God requires, and is well pleasing in his sight d; see Leviticus 19:35. This may be understood of balances and weights in religious affairs; the balance of the sanctuary is the word of God, with which all doctrines are to be weighed, and, if found wanting, they are to be rejected; this is agreeable to the will of God: false balances are abominable to him; such as carnal reason, vain philosophy, and the traditions of men, used by antichrist and his followers; the harlot, described in some preceding chapters, opposed to Wisdom or Christ, who directs to the search of the Scriptures, and the use of them to try doctrines by, John 5:39; see Acts 17:11.
c אבן שלמה "lapsis perfectus", Montanus, Gejerus. d μετρα νεμειν τα δικαια, &c. Phocylid. Poem. Admon. v. 12, 13.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
This emphatic reproduction of the old rule of Deuteronomy 25:13-14 is perhaps a trace of the danger of dishonesty incidental to the growing commerce of the Israelites. The stress laid upon the same sin in Proverbs 16:11; Proverbs 20:10; bears witness to the desire of the teacher to educate the youth of Israel to a high standard of integrity, just as the protest of Hosea against it Hosea 12:7 shows the zeal of the prophet in rebuking what was becoming more and more a besetting sin.
A just weight - literally, as in the margin, indicating a time when stones rather than metal were used as a standard of weight. Compare Deuteronomy 25:13.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER XI
A parallel of the advantages of the righteous and wise, opposed
to the miseries of the wicked and the foolish. True and false
riches.
NOTES ON CHAP. XI
Verse Proverbs 11:1. A false balance is abomination — This refers to the balance itself deceitfully constructed, so that it is sooner turned at one end than at the other. This is occasioned by one end of the beam being longer than the other.
But a just weight — אבן שלמה eben shelemah, the perfect stone probably because weights were first made of stone; see the law, Deuteronomy 25:13-16.
