 | James Augustus Hessey - Bible - 1873 - 336 pages
...love of uprightness, even in the most common transactions of life. Witness what is said in verse 1, " A false balance is an abomination to the Lord : but a just weight is His delight ; " and in verse 20, "They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the Lord : but such as are... | |
 | Education - 1874 - 488 pages
...is no less imperative in administering discipline than in granting privileges and awarding honors. " A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight." This is no less true in the moral than in the physical world. Teachers mould character; and while all our... | |
 | Samuel Wordsworth Bailey - Bible - 1874 - 732 pages
...a second birth ; God dwelleth near about us, even within, Working the goodness, censuring the sin. A false balance is an abomination to the Lord : but a just weight is his delight. Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1875 - 780 pages
...are an abomination unto the Lord thy God." In the book of Proverbs there are such sayings as this : " A false balance is an abomination to the Lord : but a just weight is his delight," (ch. xi. 1.) In the writings of the Prophets, too, we find very much on this unromantic and commonplace... | |
 | Peter Cooper - 1877 - 214 pages
...exchanges fair, just, and beneficial to all concerned, or a means of tyranny and injustice, and an occasion for the exercise of greed and selfishness. "A false...man and man. Justice and truth are at the bottom of til fair exchanges that are beneficial to both parties ; but false balances and unjust weights are... | |
 | Peter Cooper - Currency question - 1877 - 158 pages
...tyranny and injustice, and an occasion for the exercise of greed and selfishness. " A false balance ia an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is His...man and man. Justice and truth are at the bottom of dl fair exchanges that are beneficial to both parties ; but false balances and unjust weights are the... | |
 | 1878 - 946 pages
...the will of God. Thus, if honesty is to be enforced, we are told again and again, in various words, "A false balance is an abomination to the Lord ; but a just weight is His delight " (xi. 1 ; xvi. 11 ; xx. 10, 23). If cruelty to the poor is denounced, and mercy commended, it is because... | |
 | John Seely Hart - English language - 1878 - 140 pages
...are punished. 14. A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked. 15. A false balance is an abomination to the Lord; but a just weight is his delight. 16. A fool uttereth all his mind; but a wise man keepeth it till afterwards. 17. A merry heart doeth... | |
 | James Bowling Mozley - Occasional sermons - 1879 - 378 pages
...voice of conscience. What a proverb, eg, is that to carry into the details of business and trade — "A false balance is an abomination to the Lord : but a just weight is His delight." A man is tempted to cheat his customer, or at any rate to take some slight unfair advantage, which... | |
 | Law - 1879 - 686 pages
...Even ancient Scriptures give sanction to this important principle of justice, for it is written ' that a false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is His delight.' The Romans placed weights and measures under the superintendence of their ^Ediles, who exercised a... | |
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A false balance is an abomination to the Lord: But a just weight is his delight. 
