11A just weight and balance are the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag are his work.
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A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.
Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small. …
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure. …
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 taugh…
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