Daniel 5:27 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁷ TEKEL, you have been weighed in the balances and found wanting;

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ tekel, You are weighed in the balances and are found wanting;

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁷ TEKEL; thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

Common English Bible

²⁷ tekel means that you’ve been weighed on the scales, and you don’t measure up.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ THECEL: you have been weighed on the scales and found lacking.

English Standard Version 2016

²⁷ Tekel, you have been weighed in the balances and found wanting;

Daniel 5:27 Cross References

Job 31:6

(Let me be weighed in a just balance, and let God know my integrity!)

Psalm 62:9

Men of low estate are but a breath, men of high estate are a delusion; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than a breath.

Proverbs 16:2

All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the spirit.

Proverbs 21:2

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the heart.

Jeremiah 6:30

Refuse silver they are called, for the Lord has rejected them.”

Ezekiel 5:1

“And you, O son of man, take a sharp sword; use it as a barber's razor and pass it over your head and your beard; then take balances for weighing, and divide the hair.

Nahum 1:14

The Lord has given commandment about you: “No more shall your name be perpetuated; from the house of your gods I will cut off the graven image and the molten image. I will make your grave, for you are vile.”

1 Corinthians 3:13

each man's work will become manifest; for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done.