Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
A just beam and balances are Jehovah's, His work are all the stones of the bag.
New American Standard Bible
All the
King James Version
A just weight and balance are the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag are his work.
Holman Bible
all the weights in the bag
International Standard Version
Honest scales and balances are from the LORD; he made all the weights in the bag.
A Conservative Version
A just balance and scales are LORD's. All the weights of the bag are his work.
American Standard Version
A just balance and scales are Jehovah's; All the weights of the bag are his work.
Amplified
A just balance and [honest] scales are the Lord’s;
All the weights of the bag are His concern [established by His eternal principles].
Bible in Basic English
True measures and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are his work.
Darby Translation
The just balance and scales are Jehovah's; all the weights of the bag are his work.
Julia Smith Translation
Weighing and balances of judgment are to Jehovah, and his work all the stones of the bag.
King James 2000
A just weight and balance are the LORD's: all the weights in the bag are his work.
Lexham Expanded Bible
A balance and scales of justice [belong] to Yahweh; all the weights of the bag [are] his work.
Modern King James verseion
A just weight and balance are Jehovah's; all the weights of the bag are His work.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
A true measure and a true balance are the LORD's; he maketh all weights.
NET Bible
Honest scales and balances are from the Lord; all the weights in the bag are his handiwork.
New Heart English Bible
Honest balances and scales are the LORD's; all the weights in the bag are his work.
The Emphasized Bible
The balance and scales of justice, belong to Yahweh, and, his handiwork, are all the weights of the bag.
Webster
A just weight and balance are the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag are his work.
World English Bible
Honest balances and scales are Yahweh's; all the weights in the bag are his work.
Themes
Business life » Fidelity » Giving of just weights
Social duties » Mercifulness » Of giving just weights
Virtues » Fidelity » Giving of just weights
Weights » Troy weights a gerah = 1/50 oz » 10 gerahs = 1 bekah = 1/5 oz
Topics
Interlinear
Mishpat
'eben
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 16:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
Proverbs Of Solomon
10 An oath is on the lips of a king, In judgment his mouth trespasseth not. 11 A just beam and balances are Jehovah's, His work are all the stones of the bag. 12 An abomination to kings is doing wickedness, For by righteousness is a throne established.
Names
Cross References
Proverbs 11:1
Balances of deceit are an abomination to Jehovah, And a perfect weight is His delight.
Leviticus 19:35-36
'Ye do not do perversity in judgment, in mete-yard, in weight, or in liquid measure;
Deuteronomy 25:13-15
'Thou hast not in thy bag a stone and a stone, a great and a small.
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.
Ezekiel 45:10
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
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 6:11
Do I reckon it pure with balances of wickedness? And with a bag of deceitful stones?