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Pro_11:1 A false balance [is] abomination to the LORD: but a just weight [is] his delight.
Ver. 1. A false balance is abomination.] {See Trapp on "Lev_19:36"} {See Trapp on "Deu_25:15"} This kind of fraud falls heaviest upon the poor, {Amo_8:5} who are fain to fetch in everything by the penny. Hither may be referred corruptions in courts, and partialities in church businesses. See that tremendous "charge" to do nothing by partiality, or by tilting the balance. {1Ti_5:21} Those that have the "balances of deceit in their hand" {Hos_12:7} are called Canaanites, so the Hebrew hath it - that is, mere natural men, {Eze_16:3} that have no goodness in them, no, not common honesty; they do not as they would be: done by, which very heathens condemned.