Proverbs 11:1 {2}
Good News Translation
The LORD hates people who use dishonest scales. He is happy with honest weights.

New Revised Standard Version
A false balance is an abomination to the LORD, but an accurate weight is his delight.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD hates anyone who cheats, but he likes everyone who is honest.

New American Bible
False scales are an abomination to the LORD, but an honest weight, his delight.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Where pride is, there also shall be reproach: but where humility is, there also is wisdom.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Where pride is, there also shall be reproach: but where humility is, there also is wisdom.

a just weight

Proverbs 16:11 Weight and balance are judgments of the Lord: and his work all the weights of the bag.

Ezekiel 45:10-12 You shall have just balances, and a just ephi, and a just bate. . . .

Context
Dishonest Scales
1Where pride is, there also shall be reproach: but where humility is, there also is wisdom.2The simplicity of the just shall guide them: and the deceitfulness of the wicked shall destroy them.…
Cross References
Leviticus 19:35
Do not any unjust thing in judgment, in rule, in weight, or in measure.

Leviticus 19:36
Let the balance be just and the weights equal, the bushel just, and the sextary equal. I am the Lord your God, that brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 25:13
Thou shalt not have divers weights in thy bag, a greater and a less:

Deuteronomy 25:16
For the Lord thy God abhorreth him that doth these things, and he hateth all injustice.

Proverbs 16:11
Weight and balance are judgments of the Lord: and his work all the weights of the bag.

Proverbs 20:10
Diverse weights and diverse measures, both are abominable before God.

Proverbs 20:23
Diverse weights are an abomination before the Lord: a deceitful balance is not good.

Hosea 12:7
He is like Chanaan, there is a deceitful balance in his hand, he hath loved oppression.

Micah 6:11
Shall I justify wicked balances, and the deceitful weights of the bag?

Proverbs 10:32
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