KJV King James Version
TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
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Daniel 5:27
TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
TEKEL means that you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.
WEB World English Bible
TEKEL; you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.
ASV American Standard Version
TEKEL; thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Weighed—Thou art weighed in the balances, and hast been found lacking.
Surrounding context — Daniel 5
24 Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written.
25 And this [is] the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
26 This [is] the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
27 TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
28 PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
29 Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and [put] a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
30 In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
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Job 31:6Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.1 Corinthians 3:13Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.Psalm 62:9Surely men of low degree [are] vanity, [and] men of high degree [are] a lie: to be laid in the balance, they [are] altogether [lighter] than vanity.Jeremiah 6:30Reprobate silver shall [men] call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.Ezekiel 22:18-20Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they [are] brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are [even] the dross of silver.Matthew 22:11-12And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:
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