Proverbs 16:11
Good News Translation
The LORD wants weights and measures to be honest and every sale to be fair.

New Revised Standard Version
Honest balances and scales are the LORD’s; all the weights in the bag are his work.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD watches to see if we are fair or if we cheat others.

New American Bible
Balance and scales belong to the LORD; every weight in the sack is his concern.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Weight and balance are judgments of the Lord: and his work all the weights of the bag.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Weight and balance are judgments of the Lord: and his work all the weights of the bag.

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Proverbs 11:1 Where pride is, there also shall be reproach: but where humility is, there also is wisdom.

Proverbs 20:10,23 Diverse weights and diverse measures, both are abominable before God. . . .

Leviticus 19:35,36 Do not any unjust thing in judgment, in rule, in weight, or in measure. . . .

Deuteronomy 25:13-15 Thou shalt not have divers weights in thy bag, a greater and a less: . . .

Ezekiel 45:10 You shall have just balances, and a just ephi, and a just bate.

Hosea 12:7 He is like Chanaan, there is a deceitful balance in his hand, he hath loved oppression.

Amos 8:5 Hear this, you that crush the poor, and make the needy of the land to fail,

Micah 6:11 Shall I justify wicked balances, and the deceitful weights of the bag?

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Context
The Reply of the Tongue is from the LORD
10Divination is in the lips of the king, his mouth shall not err in judgment. 11Weight and balance are judgments of the Lord: and his work all the weights of the bag.12They that act wickedly are abominable to the king: for the throne is established by justice.…
Cross References
Proverbs 11:1
Where pride is, there also shall be reproach: but where humility is, there also is wisdom.

Ezekiel 45:10
You shall have just balances, and a just ephi, and a just bate.

Proverbs 16:10
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