Proverbs 20:23 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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

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

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;

Deuteronomy 25:13

Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.