Proverbs 20:10 (BSB)

Differing weights and unequal measures—both are detestable to the LORD.

From Proverbs 20. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 20:10

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 20:10: See here, 1. The various arts of deceiving that men have, all which evils the love of money is the root of. In paying and receiving money, which was then commonly done by the scale, they had divers weights, an under-weight for what they paid and an over-weight for what they received; in delivering out and taking in goods they had divers measures, a scanty...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 20:10: Divers weights, and divers measures,.... Or, "a stone and a stone, and an ephah and an ephah" (d). Stones being in old time used in weighing, and an "ephah" was a common measure among the Jews; and these ought not to be different; one stone or weight for buying, and another for selling; and one measure to buy goods in with, and another to sell...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 20:10: Various measures, implying that some are wrong (compare Pro 11:1; Pro 16:11).
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 20:10: Differing weights, [and] differing measures, both of them [are] alike abomination to the LORD. (e) Read .