Words of Wisdom
Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt. Leviticus 19:36
Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! Job 6:2
Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity. Job 31:6
Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity. Psalm 62:9
A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight. Proverbs 11:1
A just weight and balance are the LORD's: all the weights of the bag are his work. Proverbs 16:11
Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good. Proverbs 20:23
Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him?
With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?
Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Isaiah 40:12-15
They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship. Isaiah 46:6
And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances. Jeremiah 32:10
And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair. Ezekiel 5:1
Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath. Ezekiel 45:10
TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. Daniel 5:27
He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress. Hosea 12:7
Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.
Amos 8:5-7
Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Micah 6:11, 12
And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. Revelation 6:5
