Proverbs 16:11
Weight and balance are judgments of the Lord: and his work all the weights of the bag.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Pondus et statera judicia Domini sunt, et opera ejus omnes lapides sacculi.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ῥοπὴ ζυγοῦ δικαιοσύνη παρὰ Κυρίῳ, τὰ δὲ ἔργα αὐτοῦ στάθμια δίκαια.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- פֶּ֤לֶס וּמֹאזְנֵ֣י מִ֭שְׁפָּט לַֽיהוָ֑ה מַ֝עֲשֵׂ֗הוּ כָּל אַבְנֵי כִֽיס
Haydock's commentary
Bag. Many read sæculi, "of the world." So Ven. Bede, &c. All God's appointments are perfectly just, chap. xi. 21. It was the custom for people to carry balances to weigh money, before it was coined. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.