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Proverbs 20:23 KJV
Proverbs · chapter 20 · verse 23
Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.Proverbs 20:23 · King James Version
Proverbs 20:23 in context
21An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
22Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.
23Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.
24Man’s goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?
25It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- abominationtôwʻêbahproperly, something disgustingH8441 →
- weightsʼebena stoneH68 →
- balancemôʼzêna pair of scalesH3976 →
- falsemirmâhfraudH4820 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
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This is to the same purport with what was said Pro 20:20. 1. It is here repeated, because it is a sin that God doubly hates (as lying, which is of the same nature with this sin, is mentioned twice among the seven things that God hates, Pro 6:17, Pro 6:19), and because it was probably a sin very much practised at that…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary