A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight.
Micah 6:11 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Can I be pure [Myself, and acquit the man] with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful weights? [I Thess. 4:6.] American Standard Version (1901) Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights? Common English Bible Can I approve wicked scales and a bag of false weights Catholic Public Domain Version Shall I justify unfaithful balances, and the deceitful weighing of a small bag? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Shall I justify wicked balances, and the deceitful weights of the bag? |
A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight.
A just weight and balance are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are his work.
Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the Lord.
He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.
saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.