Amos 8:5; Ezekiel 45:10; Hosea 12:7; Proverbs 20:10
Proverbs 20. We have still further traces in Proverbs 20:9 ; Proverbs 20:24 of the sceptical spirit and the obstinate questionings of self chara...
abomination, &c. See note on Proverbs 3:32 .
Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.
Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good. No JFB commentary on this verse.
1. Raging] RV 'a brawler.' Is deceived] RM 'reeleth.' It makes a man sneer, quarrel and reel about.
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Divers weights [are] an abomination unto the Lord ,.... Proverbs 20:10 ; which is here repeated for the further confirmation of it, and that it mi...
Divers weights [are] an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance [is] not good. Ver. 23. Divers weights are an abomination. ] In righting an...
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...
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 m...
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v. 23. Divers weights are an abomination unto the Lord, and a false balance is not good. Cf v. 10.
23 Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a falseg balance is not good.