Proverbs 16:11 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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

Divers weights, and divers measures, Both of them alike are an abomination to the LORD.

Proverbs 20:23

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

Ezekiel 45:10

Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.

Hosea 12:7

He is a trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

Amos 8:5

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 dealing falsely with balances of deceit;

Micah 6:11

Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?