Proverbs 20:23 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

²³ 0 The blueness of a wound shall wipe away evils: and stripes in the more in- ward parts of the belly.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; And a false balance is not good.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ Diverse and deceitful weights are shamefully vile and abhorrent to the Lord, and false scales are not good.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ Diverse weights are an abomination to Jehovah; And a false balance is not good.

Common English Bible

²³ The LORD detests false weights; deceptive scales aren’t right.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ Diverse weights are an abomination with the Lord. A deceitful balance is not good.

Proverbs 20:23 Cross References

Proverbs 11:1

The just is delivered out of distress: and the wicked shall be given up for him.

Proverbs 20:10

7 The bread of lying is sweet to a man: but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

Ezekiel 45:10

8 Thus saith the Lord God: In the first month, the first of the month, thou shalt take a calf of the herd without blemish, and thou shalt expiate the sanctuary.

Hosea 12:7

When Ephraim spoke, a horror seized Israel: and he sinned in Baal and died.

Amos 8:5

3 In that day the fair virgins, and the young men shall faint for thirst.

Deuteronomy 25:13

8 How he met thee: and slew the hindmost of the army, who sat down, being weary, when thou wast spent with hunger and labour, and he feared not God.