23 Unequal weights are detestable to the LORD, and dishonest scales are no good.
Focused Passage
Proverbs 20:23
The LORD Searches the Heart: Sobriety, Justice, Counsel, Speech, and Honest Measures
The chapter moves from appetite and conflict, to hidden purposes and integrity, to royal justice and human impurity, to work and speech, to surety, fraud, counsel, and gossip, to family honor, inheritance, vengeance, and dishonest scales, and finally to providence, vows, royal judgment, the LORD's searching lamp, and painful correction.
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Verse 23
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Unequal weights אֶ֣בֶן H68 Noun - feminine singular . . . וָאָ֑בֶן H68 Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular are detestable תּוֹעֲבַ֣ת H8441 Noun - feminine singular construct to the LORD יְ֭הוָה H3068 Noun - proper - masculine singular and dishonest מִרְמָ֣ה H4820 Noun - feminine singular scales וּמֹאזְנֵ֖י H3976 Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine dual construct are no לֹא־ H3808 Adverb - Negative particle good טֽוֹב׃ H2896 Adjective - masculine singular