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Selected Verse: Proverbs 11:1 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Pr 11:1 |
King James |
A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
(Pro. 11:1-31)
(Compare Margin). The Hebrews used stones for weights.
just--complete in measure. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
This emphatic reproduction of the old rule of Deu 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 same sin in Pro 16:11; Pro 20:10; bears witness to the desire of the teacher to educate the youth of Israel to a high standard of integrity, just as the protest of Hosea against it Hos 12:7 shows the zeal of the prophet in rebuking what was becoming more and more a besetting sin.
A just weight - literally, as in the margin, indicating a time when stones rather than metal were used as a standard of weight. Compare Deu 25:13. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
The next three proverbs treat of honesty, discretion, and innocence or dove-like simplicity:
1 Deceitful balances are an abomination to Jahve;
But a full weight is His delight.
The very same proverb, with slightly varied expression, is found in Pro 20:23; and other such like proverbs, in condemnation of false and in approbation of true balances, are found, Pro 20:10; Pro 16:11; similar predicates, but connected with other subjects, are found at Pro 12:22; Pro 15:8. "An abomination to Jahve" is an expression we have already twice met with in the introduction, Pro 3:32; Pro 6:16, cf. Pro 8:7; תּועבה is, like תּועה, a participial noun, in which the active conception of abhorring is transferred to the action accomplished. רצון is in post-biblical Hebr. the designation of the arbitrium and the voluntas; but here רצונו signifies not that which God wishes, but that which He delights in having. "מרמה (here for the first time in Proverbs), from רמה, the Piel of which means (Pro 26:19) aliquem dolo et fraude petere. אבן, like the Pers. sanak, sanakh, Arab. ṣajat, a stone for weight; and finally, without any reference to its root signification, like Zac 5:8, אבן העופרת, a leaden weight, as when we say: a horseshoe of gold, a chess-man of ivory." |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| A false balance - The use of all false weights and measures in commerce. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
A false balance is abomination - This refers to the balance itself deceitfully constructed, so that it is sooner turned at one end than at the other. This is occasioned by one end of the beam being longer than the other.
But a just weight - אבן שלמה eben shelemah, the perfect stone probably because weights were first made of stone; see the law, Deu 25:13-16 (note). |
13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
7 He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
10 Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
11 A just weight and balance are the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag are his work.
13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
14 Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.
8 And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.
19 So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport?
7 For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
16 These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
32 For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.
8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
22 Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.
11 A just weight and balance are the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag are his work.
10 Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
23 Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.
13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
14 Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.
15 But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
16 For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.