Proverbs 16:11 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹¹A just weight and balance are the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag are his work.

Proverbs 16:11 —

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Cross-References

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Proverbs 11:1
A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
Proverbs 20:10
Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
Proverbs 20:23
Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.
Deuteronomy 25:13-15
Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small. …
Leviticus 19:35-36
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 11)

Note, 1. The administration of public justice by the magistrate is an ordinance of God; in it the scales are held, and ought to be held by a steady and impartial hand; and we ought to submit to it, for the Lord’s sake, and to see his authority in that of the magistrate, Rom. 13:1; 1 Pet. 2:13. 2. The observance of justice in commerce between man and man is likewise a divine appointment. He taught…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 11)

11. are the Lord’s ... his work--that is, what He has ordered, and hence should be observed by men.