Proverbs 11:1 · KJV
“A false balance {is} abomination to the LORD: but a just weight {is} his delight. {A false...: Heb. Balances of deceit} {just...: Heb. perfect stone}”
— Proverbs 11:1
Proverbs 11 — Context
A false balance {is} abomination to the LORD: but a just weight {is} his delight. {A false...: Heb. Balances of deceit} {just...: Heb. perfect stone}
2{When} pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly {is} wisdom.
3The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 25:13-16
Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small. {divers...: Heb. a stone and a stone}
Proverbs 16:11
A just weight and balance {are} the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag {are} his work. {the weights: Heb. the stones}
Proverbs 20:23
Divers weights {are} an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance {is} not good. {a false...: Heb. balance of deceit}
Leviticus 19:35-36
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
Proverbs 20:10
Divers weights, {and} divers measures, both of them {are} alike abomination to the LORD. {Divers weights: Heb. A stone and a stone} {divers measures: Heb. an ephah and an ephah}
Hosea 12:7
{He is} a merchant, the balances of deceit {are} in his hand: he loveth to oppress. {a merchant: or, Canaan} {oppress: or, deceive}
Ezekiel 45:10-12
Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
Amos 8:5-6
Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit? {new...: or, month} {set...: Heb. open} {falsifying...: Heb. perverting the balances of deceit}