Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Balances of deceit are an abomination to Jehovah, And a perfect weight is His delight.
New American Standard Bible
But a
King James Version
A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
Holman Bible
but an accurate weight is His delight.
International Standard Version
The LORD hates false scales, but he delights in accurate weights.
A Conservative Version
A FALSE balance is an abomination to LORD, but a just weight is his delight.
American Standard Version
A false balance is an abomination to Jehovah; But a just weight is his delight.
Amplified
But an accurate scale is His delight.
Bible in Basic English
Scales of deceit are hated by the Lord, but a true weight is his delight.
Darby Translation
A false balance is an abomination to Jehovah; but a just weight is his delight.
Julia Smith Translation
Balances of deceit, an abomination of Jehovah: and a whole stone his delight
King James 2000
A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Balances of deceit [are] an abomination of Yahweh, but {an accurate weight} delights him.
Modern King James verseion
False balances are hateful to Jehovah; but a just weight is His delight.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
A false balance is an abomination to the LORD; but a true weight pleaseth him.
NET Bible
The Lord abhors dishonest scales, but an accurate weight is his delight.
New Heart English Bible
A false balance is an abomination to the LORD, but accurate weights are his delight.
The Emphasized Bible
A deceptive balance, is an abomination to Yahweh, but, a full weight, is his delight.
Webster
A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
World English Bible
A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.
Themes
Abomination » Things that are, to God » Unjust weights and measures
Business life » Dishonesty » Condemned
Business life » Fidelity » Honesty, encouraged
Business life » Fidelity » Giving of just weights
Delight » What the lord delights in
Honesty » In business encouraged
Justice » False balances/divers weights
Social duties » Fidelity in business » Honesty in business, encouraged
Social duties » Mercifulness » Of giving just weights
Vices » Dishonesty » Condemned
Virtues » Fidelity » Honesty, encouraged
Virtues » Fidelity » Giving of just weights
Weights » Troy weights a gerah = 1/50 oz » 10 gerahs = 1 bekah = 1/5 oz
Topics
Interlinear
'eben
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 11:1
Verse Info
Context Readings
Proverbs Of Solomon
1 Balances of deceit are an abomination to Jehovah, And a perfect weight is His delight. 2 Pride hath come, and shame cometh, And with the lowly is wisdom.
Names
Cross References
Proverbs 16:11
A just beam and balances are Jehovah's, His work are all the stones of the bag.
Proverbs 20:10
A stone and a stone, an ephah and an ephah, Even both of them are an abomination to Jehovah.
Proverbs 20:23
An abomination to Jehovah are a stone and a stone, And balances of deceit are not good.
Leviticus 19:35-36
'Ye do not do perversity in judgment, in mete-yard, in weight, or in liquid measure;
Deuteronomy 25:13-16
'Thou hast not in thy bag a stone and a stone, a great and a small.
Ezekiel 45:10-12
Just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath -- ye have.
Hosea 12:7
Canaan! in his hand are balances of deceit! To oppress he hath loved.
Amos 8:5-6
Saying, When doth the new moon pass, And we sell ground corn? And the sabbath, and we open out pure corn? To make little the ephah, And to make great the shekel, And to use perversely balances of deceit.
Micah 6:10-11
Are there yet in the house of the wicked Treasures of wickedness, And the abhorred scanty ephah?