◄ Proverbs 20:23 ►
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Good News Translation
The LORD hates people who use dishonest scales and weights.

New Revised Standard Version
Differing weights are an abomination to the LORD, and false scales are not good.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD hates dishonest scales and dishonest weights. So don't cheat!

New American Bible
Varying weights are an abomination to the LORD, and false scales are not good.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Diverse weights are an abomination before the Lord: a deceitful balance is not good.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Diverse weights are an abomination before the Lord: a deceitful balance is not good.

weights

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

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

a false balance

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,

Context
Wine is a Mocker
…22Say not: I will return evil: wait for the Lord, and he will deliver thee. 23Diverse weights are an abomination before the Lord: a deceitful balance is not good.24The steps of men are guided by the Lord: but who is the man that can understand his own way?…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 25:13
Thou shalt not have divers weights in thy bag, a greater and a less:

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

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

Proverbs 20:22
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