THEOSISProverbs 16:11Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Weight and balance are judgments of the Lord: and his work all the weights of the bag.
פֶּ֤לֶס ׀ וּמֹאזְנֵ֣י מִ֭שְׁפָּט לַֽיהוָ֑ה מַ֝עֲשֵׂ֗הוּ כָּל־אַבְנֵי־כִֽיס׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 11:1A deceitful balance is an abomination before the Lord: and a just weight is his will.
- Prov 20:10Diverse weights and diverse measures, both are abominable before God.
- Ezek 45:10You shall have just balances, and a just ephi, and a just bate.
- Lev 19:35Do not any unjust thing in judgment, in rule, in weight, or in measure.
- Lev 19:36Let the balance be just and the weights equal, the bushel just, and the sextary equal. I am the Lord your God, that brought you out of the land of Egypt.
- Hos 12:7He is like Chanaan, there is a deceitful balance in his hand, he hath loved oppression.
- Deut 25:13Thou shalt not have divers weights in thy bag, a greater and a less:
- Deut 25:15Thou shalt have a just and a true weight, and thy bushel shall be equal and true: that thou mayest live a long time upon the land which the Lord thy God shall give thee.