Proverbs Chapter 20 verse 10 Holy Bible

ASV Proverbs 20:10

Diverse weights, and diverse measures, Both of them alike are an abomination to Jehovah.
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BBE Proverbs 20:10

Unequal weights and unequal measures, they are all disgusting to the Lord.
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DARBY Proverbs 20:10

Divers weights, divers measures, even both of them are abomination to Jehovah.
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KJV Proverbs 20:10

Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
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WEB Proverbs 20:10

Differing weights and differing measures, Both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
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YLT Proverbs 20:10

A stone and a stone, an ephah and an ephah, Even both of them `are' an abomination to Jehovah.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 10. - Divers weights, and divers measures; literally, stone and stone, ephah and ephah. The stones were used for weighing: dishonest traders kept them of different weights, and also measures of different capacities, substituting one for the other in order to defraud unwary customers. The Septuagint makes this plain by rendering, "A weight great and small, and measures double" (see on Proverbs 11:1 and Proverbs 16:11; and comp. ver. 23). The ephah was a dry measure, being one-tenth of the homer, and occupying the same position in solids as the bath did in liquids. It equalled about three pecks of our measure. Both of them are alike abomination to the Lord (Proverbs 17:15; comp. Leviticus 19:36; Deuteronomy 25:13, etc.); Septuagint, "Are impure before the Lord, even both of them, and he who doeth them." Pseudo-Bernard ('De Pass. Dom.,' 17.), applying the passage mystically, teaches that a man may be said to keep a double measure, who, being conscious of his own evil character, endeavours to appear righteous to others; who, as he puts it, "Suo judicio terrae proximus est, et aliis cupit elevatus videri." Others, connecting this verse in thought with the preceding, see in it a warning against judging a neighbour by a standard which we do not apply to ourselves. The Septuagint Version arranges the matter from ver. 10 onwards differently from the Hebrew, omitting vers. 14-19, and placing vers. 10-13 after ver. 22.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(10) Divers weights and divers measures . . .--See above on Proverbs 11:1.