KJV King James Version
A false balance [is] abomination to the LORD: but a just weight [is] his delight.
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Proverbs 11:1
A false balance [is] abomination to the LORD: but a just weight [is] his delight.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Dishonest scales are an abomination to the LORD, but an accurate weight is His delight.
WEB World English Bible
A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.
ASV American Standard Version
A false balance is an abomination to Jehovah; But a just weight is his delight.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Balances of deceit are an abomination to Jehovah, And a perfect weight is His delight.
Surrounding context — Proverbs 11
1 A false balance [is] abomination to the LORD: but a just weight [is] his delight.
2 [When] pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly [is] wisdom.
3 The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
4 Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
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Deuteronomy 25:13-16Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.Proverbs 16:11A just weight and balance [are] the LORD’S: all the weights of the bag [are] his work.Proverbs 20:23Divers weights [are] an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance [is] not good.Leviticus 19:35-36Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.Proverbs 20:10Divers weights, [and] divers measures, both of them [are] alike abomination to the LORD.Hosea 12:7[He is] a merchant, the balances of deceit [are] in his hand: he loveth to oppress.Ezekiel 45:10-12Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.Amos 8:5-6Saying, 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?Micah 6:10-11Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure [that is] abominable?
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