 | Henry Mandeville - Readers - 1851 - 396 pages
...witness delivereth souls ; but a deceitful witness speaketh lies. The liberal soul shall be made fat. A false balance is an abomination to the Lord; but a just weight is his delight. ' Few and evil have been the days of my pilgrimage. Every nan is an accountable being. The best and... | |
 | Thomas Vincent - Catechisms - 1854 - 382 pages
...thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have." Prov. xi. 1. " A false balance is an abomination to the Lord ; but a just weight is his delight." Micah vi. 10, 11. " Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1857 - 320 pages
...hide the precious store May doi87 much harm, but suffer more. ANON XV. — SCRIPTURAL PROVERBS. 1. A FALSE balance is an abomination to the Lord; but a just weight is his delight. A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold.... | |
 | Bible - 1872 - 704 pages
...VI. 10, 11; comp. Hos. XII. 8). The Book of Proverbs contains a number of sentences declaring, "that a false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is His delight" (Prov. XI. 1); or "a just weight and balance are the Lord's, all the weightstones of the bag are His... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American literature - 1855 - 348 pages
...hide the precious store May do187 much harm, but suffer more. ANON XV. — SCRIPTURAL PROVERBS. 1. A FALSE balance is an abomination to the Lord ; but a just weight is his delight. A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold.... | |
 | rev. Archibald Currie - 1855 - 272 pages
...! While in reference, therefore to the unjust seller, it may be said, in the words of Scripture, " a false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just balance is his delight," of the unjust buyer it is no less true, that he virtually exclaims, " it is... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1857 - 350 pages
...who hide the precious store May do 187 much harm, but suffer more. XV. SCRIPTURAL PROVERBS. ANON 1. A FALSE balance is an abomination to the Lord; but a just weight is his delight. A good name is rather to be chosen thac great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold.... | |
 | 1866 - 734 pages
...God or of the deviL Trni and justice make it the former, falsehood and unfairness make it ti latter. "A false balance is an abomination to the Lord ; but a just weid is his delight." LIVING IT DOWN. BY CTCLA, AUTHOR OF "PATTIE DUEANT," &c., &c., &c. CHAPTER IV.... | |
 | Edward Higginson - Bible - 1863 - 556 pages
...: " A wise son maketh a glad father, But a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother " (x. 1). . " A false balance is an abomination to the LORD, But a just weight is his delight " (xi. 1). Sometimes there is a double antithesis, as, " Better is a dry morsel and quietness therewith,... | |
 | Alexander McCaul - Bible - 1863 - 256 pages
...(n?!), can only be understood by reference to Lev. xviii. 17; xix. 29. In Solomon's declaration, that " a false balance is an abomination to the Lord : but a just weight is his delight" (xi. 1); and again, "Divers weights and divers measures, both of them are an abomination to the Lord"... | |
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A false balance is an abomination to the Lord: But a just weight is his delight. 
