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


In Context

20 Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.

21 An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

22 Say not you, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save you.

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

24 Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?

25 It is a snare to the man who devours that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry.

Proverbs 20:23 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:23Divers weights [are] an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance [is] not good.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

20:23The Lord detests differing weights, and dishonest scales do not please him.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

20:23Diverse weights are an abomination before the Lord: a deceitful balance is not good.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

20:23Diverse weights are an abomination to Jehovah; And a false balance is not good.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:23Divers weights are an abomination unto Jehovah; and a false balance is not good.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

20:23Divers weights are an abomination to the LORD; and a false balance is not good.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:23Divers weights are an abomination to the LORD; and a false balance is not good.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:23Yahweh detests differing weights, and dishonest scales are not pleasing.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

20:23An abomination to Jehovah are a stone and a stone, And balances of deceit are not good.