Proverbs 16:11 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

A just balance and scales are the Lord's; all the weights in the bag are his work.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

A just weight and balance are the LORD's: All the weights of the bag are his work.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

A just balance and scales are the Lord's; all the weights of the bag are His work [established on His eternal principles].

American Standard Version (1901)

A just balance and scales are Jehovah’s; All the weights of the bag are his work.

Common English Bible

Honest balances and scales are the LORD’s; all the weights in the bag are his doing.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Weights and scales are judgments of the Lord. And all the stones in the bag are his work.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Proverbs 16:11 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.

Proverbs 20:23

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

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,

Micah 6:11

Shall I acquit the man with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful weights?