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 kind of fraud falls heaviest upon the poor, Amo 8:5 who are fain to fetch in everything by the penny. Hither may be referred corruptions in courts, and partialities in church businesses. See that tremendous "charge" to do nothing by partiality, or by tilting the balance. 1Ti 5:21 Those that have the "balances of deceit in their hand" Hos 12:7 are called Canaanites, so the Hebrew hath it - that is, mere natural men, Eze 16:3 that have no goodness in them, no, not common honesty; they do not as they would be: done by, which very heathens condemned.