Proverbs 20:23 - Revised Standard Version

Diverse weights are an abomination to the Lord, and false scales are not good.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; And a false balance is not good.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Diverse and deceitful weights are shamefully vile and abhorrent to the Lord, and false scales are not good.

American Standard Version (1901)

Diverse weights are an abomination to Jehovah; And a false balance is not good.

Common English Bible

The LORD detests false weights; deceptive scales aren’t right.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Diverse weights are an abomination with the Lord. A deceitful balance is not good.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Proverbs 20:23 Cross References

Proverbs 11:1

A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight.

Proverbs 20:10

Diverse weights and diverse measures are both alike an abomination to the Lord.

Ezekiel 45:10

“You shall have just balances, a just ephah, and a just bath.

Hosea 12:7

A trader, in whose hands are false balances, he loves to oppress.

Amos 8:5

saying, “When will the new moon be over, that we may sell grain? And the sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, that we may make the ephah small and the shekel great, and deal deceitfully with false balances,

Deuteronomy 25:13

“You shall not have in your bag two kinds of weights, a large and a small.