KJV King James Version
A just weight and balance [are] the LORD’S: all the weights of the bag [are] his work.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Proverbs 16:11
A just weight and balance [are] the LORD’S: all the weights of the bag [are] his work.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Honest scales and balances are from the LORD; all the weights in the bag are His concern.
WEB World English Bible
Honest balances and scales are Yahweh’s; all the weights in the bag are his work.
ASV American Standard Version
A just balance and scales are Jehovah’s; All the weights of the bag are his work.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
A just beam and balances are Jehovah’s, His work are all the stones of the bag.
Surrounding context — Proverbs 16
8 Better [is] a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
9 A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.
10 A divine sentence [is] in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresseth not in judgment.
11 A just weight and balance [are] the LORD’S: all the weights of the bag [are] his work.
12 [It is] an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness.
13 Righteous lips [are] the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right.
14 The wrath of a king [is as] messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it.
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Cross-references
Proverbs 11:1A false balance [is] abomination to the LORD: but a just weight [is] his delight.Proverbs 20:10Divers weights, [and] divers measures, both of them [are] alike abomination to the LORD.Proverbs 20:23Divers weights [are] an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance [is] not good.Hosea 12:7[He is] a merchant, the balances of deceit [are] in his hand: he loveth to oppress.Leviticus 19:35-36Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.Ezekiel 45:10Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.Deuteronomy 25:13-15Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.Amos 8:5Saying, 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 6:11Shall I count [them] pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
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