English Standard Version
Proverbs 20:10
10Unequal weights and unequal measures are both alike an abomination to the Lord.
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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Diverse weights and diverse measures, They are both alike, an abomination to the Lord.
- New Living Translation (NLT)False weights and unequal measures— the Lord detests double standards of every kind.
Context of Proverbs 20:10
8A king who sits on the throne of judgment winnows all evil with his eyes. 9Who can say, "I have made my heart pure; I am clean from my sin"? Unequal weights and unequal measures are both alike an abomination to the Lord. 11Even a child makes himself known by his acts, by whether his conduct is pure and upright. 12The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the Lord has made them both.
Read all of Proverbs 20Proverbs 20:10 word by word
אֶ֣בֶן וָ֭אֶבֶן אֵיפָ֣ה וְאֵיפָ֑ה תּוֹעֲבַ֥ת יְ֝הוָ֗ה גַּם־שְׁנֵיהֶֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 20:10
- Deuteronomy 25:13"You shall not have in your bag two kinds of weights, a large and a small.
- Proverbs 20:23Unequal weights are an abomination to the Lord, and false scales are not good.
- Proverbs 11:1A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight.
- Proverbs 16:11A just balance and scales are the Lord's; all the weights in the bag are his work.
- Leviticus 19:35"You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity.
- Amos 8:4Hear this, you who trample on the needy and bring the poor of the land to an end,
- Micah 6:10Can I forget any longer the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is accursed?
- Deuteronomy 7:25The carved images of their gods you shall burn with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, lest you be ensnared by it, for it is an abomination to the Lord your God.
- Revelation 21:8But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, 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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