Proverbs 11:1

CHAPTER XI

A parallel of the advantages of the righteous and wise, opposed

to the miseries of the wicked and the foolish. True and false

riches.

NOTES ON CHAP. XI

Verse Proverbs 11:1. A false balance is abomination] This refers to the balance itself deceitfully constructed, so that it is sooner turned at one end than at the other. This is occasioned by one end of the beam being longer than the other.

But a just weight] אבן שלמה eben shelemah, the perfect stone probably because weights were first made of stone; see the law, Deuteronomy 25:13-5.