“ A falsea balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight. ”
This emphatic reproduction of the old rule of Deuteronomy 25:13-14 is perhaps a trace of the danger of dishonesty incidental to the growing commerce of the Israelites. The stress laid upon the sa...
A false (a) balance [is] abomination to the LORD: but a just weight [is] his delight. (a) Under this word he condemns all false weights, measures and deceit.
Proverbs 11. The orthodox view of strictly retributive justice found in Proverbs 10:24 f., Proverbs 11:27-30 is represented by a further group ( Proverbs 11:2-8 ; Proverbs 11:18-21 , and Prov...
A false balance . False balances. abomination. See note on Proverbs 3:32 . the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4. weight . stone. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause), App-6, for the...
A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight. A false balance is abomination - This refers to the balance itself deceitfully constructed, so that it is sooner turn...
A false balance, &c.— See Leviticus 19:35 . This rule may hold, not in commerce only, but also in our judgments, and in our whole conduct towards our neighbour. In every thing respecting him,...
A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
1. False weights were exceedingly common ( Proverbs 16:11 ; Proverbs 20:10 ; Amos 8:5 ).
XI. (1) A false balance is abomination to the Lord. — A similar proverb is found in Proverbs 20:23 , and praise of just weights, Proverbs 16:11 ; Proverbs 20:10 . The repetition suggests that...
CHAPTER 12 GOODNESS "The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them." Proverbs 11:6 "An unjust man is the abomination of the righteous, and he who goes right in his way is the abomination...
Verse Proverbs 11:7 . The antithesis of this proverb is between the condition described and that of one not described, that is to say, the expectation or hope of the wicked lies wholly on this side...
A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight. What a blessed thought is it, that when our poor nature, weighed in the balance was found wanting; Jesus more than compe...
A false balance [is] abomination to the Lord ,.... Under which are included all false weights and measures, and all fraudulent practices in commerce and dealing; which are forbidden by the Lord, and...
A false balance [is] abomination to the LORD: but a just weight [is] his delight. Ver. 1. A false balance is abomination. ] See Trapp on " Lev 19:36 " See Trapp on " Deu 25:15 " This kin...
A false balance The use of all false weights and measures in commerce; is abomination to the Lord Highly abominable to him, both because this wickedness is practised under a colour of justice, an...
Weighty Sayings. 1 A false balance is abomination to the L ORD : but a just weight is his delight. As reli...
PROVERBS CHAPTER 11 A false balance, the use of all false weights and measures in commerce, is abomination, i.e. highly abominable, as the abstract signifies; which is opposed to the false opinio...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 11:1 . Just weight , literally, “a stone of completeness, a full stone.” Stone was a very ancient material for weight; not rusting, it was not changeable. MAIN HOMILET...
Proverbs 11:1 Our God is emphatically a God of justice. Wherever there is deceit in the world, wherever injury, wherever oppression, there is God's anger and loathing accompanying it. I. The fals...
Proverbs 11:1 . A false balance is an abomination to the Lord. A dishonest tradesman here receives a hard stroke. Though his weight be but little short of the standard; yet by using it a thousand...
A false balance is an abomination to the Lord. The heinousness of injustice done under the pretence of equity The proverbs of this book are often figurative, and of a very strong and extensive...
EXPOSITION Proverbs 11:1 A false balance; literally, balances of deceit ( Proverbs 20:23 ). The repetition of the injunctions of Deuteronomy 25:13 , Deuteronomy 25:14 and Leviticus...
v. 1. A false balance, literally, "balances of deceit," is abomination to the Lord, cheating in business is loathsome to Him; but a just weight, literally, "a stone of fullness," a complete mea...
Amos 8:5 ; Amos 8:6 ; Deuteronomy 25:13-16 ; Ezekiel 45:10-12 ; Hosea 12:7 ; Leviticus 19:35 ; Leviticus 19:36 ; Micah 6:10 ; Micah 6:11 ; Proverbs 16:11 ; Proverbs 20:10 ; Proverbs 20:23...
A false balance — The use of all false weights and measures in commerce.