Proverbs 16:11
What meaning of the proverbs 16:11 in the Bible?
What does Proverbs 16:11 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"A just weight and balance are the LORD'S: all the weightsd of the bag are his work."
What does Proverbs 16:11 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"A just weight and balance are the LORD'S: all the weightsd of the bag are his work."
Verse Proverbs 16:11. _ALL THE WEIGHTS OF THE BAG_ ARE _HIS_] Alluding, probably, to the _standard weights_ laid up in a bag in the _sanctuary_, and to which all weights in common use in the land were...
See Proverbs 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....
CHAPTER 16 IN THE LIGHT OF THE LORD The name Jehovah (LORD) appears eleven times in this chapter of Proverbs. The Lord has the final word, for to man belong the preparations (or plans) of the heart;...
PROVERBS 16. The special feature is a group of aphorisms (Proverbs 16:10) relating to kings. The sentiments seem rather to reflect the picture of the ideal king than to indicate any particular period....
WORK. something made: i.e. His ordinance. Leviticus 19:36. Compare Proverbs 11:1. The shekel was the shekel "of the sanctuary"....
_weight and balance_ Rather, BALANCE (or, STEELYARD) AND SCALES. See Proverbs 11:1, note....
CHAPTER 16 TEXT Proverbs 16:1-11 1. The plans of the heart belong to man; But the answer of the tongue is from Jehovah. 2. All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; But Jehovah weigheth t...
A just weight and balance are the LORD's: all the weights of the bag are his work. A JUST WEIGHT (RATHER, SCALE-LITERALLY, THE UPRIGHT IRON IN SCALES WHICH THE WEIGHER HOLDS IN HIS HAND, AND IN WH...
1-9. God's control of human life....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 16 The subject of the book now begins to change. In earlier Chapter s, the main subject is the difference between wise actions and evil action...
A JUST WEIGHT AND BALANCE ARE THE LORD’S. — See above on Proverbs 11:1....
פֶּ֤לֶס ׀ וּ מֹאזְנֵ֣י מִ֭שְׁפָּט לַֽ יהוָ֑ה מַ֝עֲשֵׂ֗הוּ כָּל ־אַבְנֵי ־כִֽיס׃...
CHAPTER 17 A JUST BALANCE "A just balance and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are His work."- Proverbs 16:11 "A false balance is an abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is H...
Verse Proverbs 16:1. A somewhat obscure proverb which recognizes that man has to exercise his own reason in making his plans, but that he is dependent on the Lord for the answer of the tongue. Dr. Per...
A just weight and balance [are] the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag [are] his (f) work. (f) If they are true and just, they are God's work, and he delights in it, but otherwise if they are false,...
_Bag. Many read sæculi, "of the world." So Ven. Bede, &c. All God's appointments are perfectly just, chap. xi. 21. It was the custom for people to carry balances to weigh money, before it was coined....
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right. A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps. A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth trans...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31. In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be follow...
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 maintaini...
A just weight and balance [are] the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag [are] his work. Ver. 11. A just weight and balance are the Lord's,] _i.e., _ Are commanded and commended by him. Proverbs 2:1 De...
_A just weight, &c., are the Lord's_ Are God's work, as it follows; made by his direction and appointment, so that no man can corrupt or alter them, without violating God's rights and authority, and i...
V. 11. A JUST WEIGHT AND BALANCE ARE THE LORD'S, literally, "The scale and balances of justice belong to Jehovah," His sovereign will directs their proper use, He wants business to be carried on witho...
ARE THE LORD S; are God's work, as it follows; made by his direction and appointment, so as no man can corrupt or alter them without violating God's rights and authority, and incurring his displeasure...
Proverbs 16:11 Honest H4941 weights H6425 scales H3976 LORDS H3068 weights H68 bag H3599 work H4639 just - Proverbs 11:1, Proverbs 20:10, Proverbs 20:23; Leviticus 19:35-36;...
YHWH IS CONCERNED ABOUT INJUSTICE WHETHER AT THE HANDS OF THE KING OR OF MEN (PROVERBS 16:8). In this subsection men are urged to act justly and rightly in their business dealings, and kings are urge...
CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The safest way in which to travel is the way of the upright, a way which God makes plain to those who desire to walk in it....
Proverbs 16:1. _The preparations of the heart in man._ As the field must be plowed, and the soil prepared for the seeds, so the heart of man must be prepared for grace. Afflictions in Egypt disposed t...
_A just weight and balance are the Lord’s._ A JUST BALANCE It is a part of the Lord’s watchful activity and direct connection with all the affairs of human life that He is interested in our business...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 16:10 The remaining sections of ch. Proverbs 16:1 illustrate the benefits of wisdom for the well-being of the heart (vv. Proverbs 16:16, Proverbs 16:20, Proverbs 16:25). ⇐ ⇔...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 16:10. A DIVINE SENTENCE, literally _“divination,” i.e., “an oracle_” or “_a decision_.” “HIS MOUTH TRANSGRESSETH NOT.” Stuart and Delitzsch read, “_In judgment his mouth sh...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 16:1 These are specially religions maxims, and they all contain the name Jehovah. PROVERBS 16:1 The Authorized Version makes one sentence of this verse without any contrast or a...
Shall we turn now to Proverbs 16:1-33, the sixteenth chapter and begin our study this evening. The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD (Proverbs 16:1). Go...
Amos 8:5; Deuteronomy 25:13; Ezekiel 45:10; Hosea 12:7; Leviticus 19:35; Leviticus 19:36; Micah 6:11; Proverbs 11:1; Proverbs 20:10;...
The Lord's — Are made by his direction and appointment, so that no man can alter them without violating God's rights and authority....