Proverbs 20:10 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Divers weights,c and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD. ”

Proverbs 20:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See 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.
Proverbs 20:10 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Differing weights, [and] differing measures, both of (e) them [are] alike abomination to the LORD. (e) Read ( Proverbs 16:11 ).
Proverbs 20:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 20. We have still further traces in Proverbs 20:9 ; Proverbs 20:24 of the sceptical spirit and the obstinate questionings of self characteristic of the later Greek period of Jewish thou...
Proverbs 20:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

weights... measures. Hebrew "a stone and. stone, an ephah and an ephah". Ephah put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Species), App-6, for all kinds of weights and measures. There is no word for...
Proverbs 20:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD. Divers weights and divers measures - A peise and a peise; - Old MS. Bible: from the French pois, weight. Hebre...
Proverbs 20:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD. Divers weights - Hebrew, 'a stone and a stone' - i:e., one weight in buying; a different one in selling....
Proverbs 20:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1. Raging] RV 'a brawler.' Is deceived] RM 'reeleth.' It makes a man sneer, quarrel and reel about.
Proverbs 20:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Divers weights and divers measures ... — See above on Proverbs 11:1 .
Proverbs 20:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER 21 IDLENESS "After the autumn gathering the slothful does not plough; he asks in the harvest, and there is nothing."- Proverbs 20:4 WE have already in the sixth lecture caught a glimps...
Proverbs 20:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Sobriety; Industry; Honesty Proverbs 20:1-15 Strong drink is the greatest of all foes to human happiness. It gains an influence over men by fair promises, but when once it is entrenched, it moc...
Proverbs 20:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Verse Proverbs 20:9 . This is the eternal challenge which has but one answer. When a man recognizes this he begins to inquire for a Saviour. Verse Proverbs 20:14 . "It is bad, it is bad," is the d...
Proverbs 20:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD. Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right. The hearing ear, and the s...
Proverbs 20:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Divers weights, [and] divers measures ,.... Or, "a stone and a stone, and an ephah and an ephah" d. Stones being in old time used in weighing, and an "ephah" was a common measure among the Jews; and...
Proverbs 20:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Divers weights, [and] divers measures, both of them [are] alike abomination to the LORD. Ver. 10. Divers weights, and divers measures, &c. ] See Trapp on " Pro 11:1 " See Trapp on " Pro...
Proverbs 20:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

10 Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the L ORD . See here, 1. The various arts of deceiving that men have, all which evils the love of m...
Proverbs 20:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Divers weights and divers measures; one greater and true for public show, and one lesser and false for private use, when they had an opportunity of deceiving.
Proverbs 20:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 20:6 . Miller reads the first clause of this verse, “ Much of the mere man one calls his goodness ,” i.e. , “Much that is merely human.” He allows, however, that the us...
Proverbs 20:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 20:1 . Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging. In the book of Ecclesiasticus intoxication is connected with poverty, with harlots, with destruction: chap. Proverbs 19:1-2 . Cyrus, afte...
Proverbs 20:10 - The Biblical Illustrator

Divers weights and divers measures; both of them are alike abomination to the Lord. Caveat venditor I. Dishonesty in trade is various in its forms. “Divers weights and divers measures. .. and a...
Proverbs 20:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Proverbs 20:1 Wine is a mocker; or, scorner, the word ( luts ) being taken up from the last chapter. The liquor is, as it were, personified, as doing what men do under its infl...
Proverbs 20:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

v. 10. Divers weights, stones as they were used for weights in balances, and divers measures, the reference being not only to the vessels used in dry measure, but to every kind of measure, both...
Proverbs 20:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 8:4-7 ; Deuteronomy 25:13 ; Deuteronomy 25:13-15 ; Deuteronomy 7:25 ; Deuteronomy 7:26 ; Leviticus 19:35 ; Micah 6:10 ; Micah 6:11 ; Proverbs 11:1 ; Proverbs 16:11 ; Proverbs 20:23 ;...
Proverbs 20:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Divers — One greater for shew and one lesser for use.

Proverbs 20:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Proverbs 20:10 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Proverbs 20:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 20:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Proverbs 20:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Proverbs 20:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 20:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 20:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Proverbs 20:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Proverbs 20:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Proverbs 20:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 20:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Proverbs 20:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Proverbs 20:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Proverbs 20:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Proverbs 20:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Proverbs 20:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Proverbs 20:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 20:10 - The Biblical Illustrator

Proverbs 20:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Proverbs 20:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Proverbs 20:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 20:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes