New American Standard Bible 1995
Proverbs 20:10
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 who sits on the throne of justice Disperses all evil with his eyes. 9Who can say, “I have cleansed my heart, I am pure from my sin”? Differing weights and differing measures, Both of them are abominable to the Lord. 11It is by his deeds that a lad distinguishes himself If his conduct is pure and right. 12The hearing ear and the seeing eye, The Lord has made 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 25:13“You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a large and a small.
- Proverbs 20:23Differing weights are an abomination to the Lord, And a false scale is 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 belong to the Lord; All the weights of the bag are His concern.
- Leviticus 19:35‘You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measurement of weight, or capacity.
- Amos 8:4Hear this, you who trample the needy, to do away with the humble of the land,
- Micah 6:10Is there yet a man in the wicked house, Along with treasures of wickedness And a short measure that is cursed?
- Deuteronomy 7:25The graven images of their gods you are to burn with fire; you shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, or you will be snared by it, for it is an abomination to the Lord your God.
- Revelation 21:8But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns 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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