Keil and Delitzsch Commentary - Proverbs 11:1 - 11:1

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Keil and Delitzsch Commentary - Proverbs 11:1 - 11:1


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The next three proverbs treat of honesty, discretion, and innocence or dove-like simplicity:

1 Deceitful balances are an abomination to Jahve;

But a full weight is His delight.

The very same proverb, with slightly varied expression, is found in Pro 20:23; and other such like proverbs, in condemnation of false and in approbation of true balances, are found, Pro 20:10; Pro 16:11; similar predicates, but connected with other subjects, are found at Pro 12:22; Pro 15:8. “An abomination to Jahve” is an expression we have already twice met with in the introduction, Pro 3:32; Pro 6:16, cf. Pro 8:7; תּוֹעֵבָה is, like תּוֹעָה, a participial noun, in which the active conception of abhorring is transferred to the action accomplished. רָצוֹן is in post-biblical Hebr. the designation of the arbitrium and the voluntas; but here רְצוֹנוֹ signifies not that which God wishes, but that which He delights in having. “מִרְמָה (here for the first time in Proverbs), from רָמָה, the Piel of which means (Pro 26:19) aliquem dolo et fraude petere. אֶבֶן, like the Pers. sanak, sanakh, Arab. ṣajat, a stone for weight; and finally, without any reference to its root signification, like Zec 5:8, אבן העופרת, a leaden weight, as when we say: a horseshoe of gold, a chess-man of ivory.”