American Standard Version
Proverbs 20:10
10Diverse weights, and diverse measures,Both of them alike are an abomination to Jehovah.
Proverbs 20:10 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the Lord.
- New International Version (NIV)Differing weights and differing measures— the Lord detests them both.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Unequal weights and unequal measures are both alike an abomination to the Lord.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Diverse weights and diverse measures, They are both alike, an abomination to the Lord.
Context of Proverbs 20:10
8A king that sitteth on 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? Diverse weights, and diverse measures, Both of them alike are an abomination to Jehovah. 11Even a child maketh himself known by his doings, Whether his work be pure, and whether it be right. 12The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Jehovah hath made even both of them.
Read all of Proverbs 20Proverbs 20:10 word by word
אֶ֣בֶן וָ֭אֶבֶן אֵיפָ֣ה וְאֵיפָ֑ה תּוֹעֲבַ֥ת יְ֝הוָ֗ה גַּם־שְׁנֵיהֶֽם׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Proverbs 20:10
- Deuteronomy 25:13Thou shalt not have in thy bag diverse weights, a great and a small.
- Proverbs 20:23Diverse weights are an abomination to Jehovah; And a false balance is not good.
- Proverbs 11:1A false balance is an abomination to Jehovah; But a just weight is his delight.
- Proverbs 16:11A just balance and scales are Jehovah’s; All the weights of the bag are his work.
- Leviticus 19:35Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.
- Amos 8:4Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
- Micah 6:10Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a scant measure that is abominable?
- Deuteronomy 7:25The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein; for it is an abomination to Jehovah thy God.
- Revelation 21:8But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part shall be in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.
Commentaries on Proverbs 20:10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10Divers weights and divers measures - A peise and a peise; - Old MS. Bible: from the French pois, weight. Hebrew: "A stone and a stone; an ephah and an ephah." One the standard, the other below it; one to buy with, the other to sell by.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10See Proverbs 11:1: Here perhaps, as a companion to Proverbs 20:9, with a wider application to all judging one man by rules which we do not apply to ourselves or to another.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 10Verse 10 See the various deceits men use, of which the love of money is the root. The Lord will not bless what is thus gotten.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 10Differing weights and unequal measures: Merchants should not cheat customers by using incorrect weights to measure grain (compare Proverbs 11:1; 16:11; 20:23).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1010. Various measures, implying that some are wrong (compare Pr 11:1; 16:11).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 20
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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