Proverbs 20:10 · KJV
“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}”
— Proverbs 20:10
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work {be} pure, and whether {it be} right.
Proverbs 20 — Context
A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
9Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
10Divers 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}
11Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work {be} pure, and whether {it be} right.
12The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.
Cross References
Proverbs 11:1
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 20:23
Divers weights {are} an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance {is} not good. {a false...: Heb. balance of deceit}
Micah 6:10-11
Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure {that is} abominable? {Are...: or, Is there yet unto every man an house of the, etc} {scant...: Heb. measure of leanness}
Leviticus 19:35
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
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}
Deuteronomy 25:13-15
Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small. {divers...: Heb. a stone and a stone}
Revelation 21:8
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Amos 8:4-7
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,