امثال سليمان 11:1

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1 ترازوی‌ با تقلّب‌ نزد خداوند مكروه است‌، اما سنگ‌ تمام‌ پسندیده‌ او است‌.

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

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.