Proverbs 16:11

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 Deu 25:14-16 See Trapp on " Deu 25:14 " See Trapp on " Deu 25:15 " See Trapp on " Deu 25:16 "

All the weights of the bag are his work,] i.e., His ordinance, and therefore not to be violated. Yea, they are iudicia Domini, as the Vulgate here reads the former clause, God's judgments. "Let no man therefore go beyond or defraud his brother" in buying and selling, "for God is the avenger of all such." 1Th 4:6 Surely his magistrates must not transgress in judgment, lest they prove but fures publici, as Cato a called them; latrones cum privilegio b as Columella, public thieves; "scabs," as the prophet Isaiah terms them, Isaiah 5:7 , marg. and lest their regiment without righteousness appear to be but robbery with authority. So neither must private persons cheat and deceive their brethren by false weights and measures, &c., lest they be looked upon as the botches of the commonwealth, and enemies to civil society.

a Gal., lib. xi. c. 18.

b Colum., lib. i.