Proverbs 20:23 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a falseg balance is not good. ”

Proverbs 20:23 - 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 20:23 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

abomination, &c. See note on Proverbs 3:32 .
Proverbs 20:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.
Proverbs 20:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good. No JFB commentary on this verse.
Proverbs 20:23 - 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 20:23 - 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 20:23 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“The Glory of Young Men” Proverbs 20:16-30 What a wonderful thought is given in Proverbs 20:27 ! We stand like a row of unlighted candles until God's Spirit kindles us. Has the Divine Nature e...
Proverbs 20:23 - 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 20:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread. It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth. There i...
Proverbs 20:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Divers weights [are] an abomination unto the Lord ,.... Proverbs 20:10 ; which is here repeated for the further confirmation of it, and that it might be taken notice of and avoided; and perhaps th...
Proverbs 20:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Divers weights [are] an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance [is] not good. Ver. 23. Divers weights are an abomination. ] In righting and revenging themselves men are apt to weigh things...
Proverbs 20:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

23 Divers weights are an abomination unto the L ORD ; and a false balance is not good. This is to the same purport with what was said Proverbs 20:20 Proverbs 20:20 . 1. It is...
Proverbs 20:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Divers weights are an abomination unto the Lord; of which See Poole on " Proverbs 20:10 " . Is not good; is very wicked and hateful to God and men.
Proverbs 20:23 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 20:22 THE RECOMPENSER OF EVIL I. The man who has been wronged is disqualified to punish the offender . A sense of pain and suffering is not helpful to a man’s judgm...
Proverbs 20:23 - 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 20:23 - The Biblical Illustrator

And a false balance is not good. False balance applied to providences We may apply a false balance to the providences which make up our life. What skill some people have in dealing only in dark...
Proverbs 20:23 - 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 20:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

v. 23. Divers weights are an abomination unto the Lord, and a false balance is not good. Cf v. 10.
Proverbs 20:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 8:5 ; Ezekiel 45:10 ; Hosea 12:7 ; Proverbs 20:10

Proverbs 20:23 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 20:23 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Proverbs 20:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Proverbs 20:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 20:23 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 20:23 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Proverbs 20:23 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Proverbs 20:23 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 20:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Proverbs 20:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Proverbs 20:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Proverbs 20:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Proverbs 20:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Proverbs 20:23 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Proverbs 20:23 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 20:23 - The Biblical Illustrator

Proverbs 20:23 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Proverbs 20:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Proverbs 20:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge