23Unequal 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 weightsאֶ֣בֶןH68Noun - feminine singular. . .וָאָ֑בֶןH68Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singularare detestableתּוֹעֲבַ֣תH8441Noun - feminine singular constructto the LORDיְ֭הוָהH3068Noun - proper - masculine singularand dishonestמִרְמָ֣הH4820Noun - feminine singularscalesוּמֹאזְנֵ֖יH3976Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine dual constructare noלֹא־H3808Adverb - Negative particlegoodטֽוֹב׃H2896Adjective - masculine singular