A just weight and balance are the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag are his work.
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Gill's Exposition
A just weight and balance are the Lord's,.... These are of his devising; what he has put into the heart, of men to contrive and make use of, for the benefit of mankind, for the keeping and maintaining…
Barnes' Notes
See Pro 11:1 note. People are not to think that trade lies outside the divine law. God has commanded there also all that belongs to truth and right.
Matthew Henry
Note, 1. The administration of public justice by the magistrate is an ordinance of God; in it the scales are held, and ought to be held by a steady and impartial hand; and we ought to submit to it,…
Cambridge Bible
weight and balance Rather, balance (or, steelyard) and scales. See Pro 11:1, note.
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