Proverbs 20:23 · KJV
“Divers weights {are} an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance {is} not good. {a false...: Heb. balance of deceit}”
— Proverbs 20:23
Say not thou, I will recompense evil; {but} wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.
Man's goings {are} of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?
Proverbs 20 — Context
An inheritance {may be} gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
22Say not thou, I will recompense evil; {but} wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.
23Divers weights {are} an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance {is} not good. {a false...: Heb. balance of deceit}
24Man's goings {are} of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?
25{It is} a snare to the man {who} devoureth {that which is} holy, and after vows to make enquiry.
Cross References
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}
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}
Ezekiel 45:10
Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
Amos 8:5
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}