Translations
Louis Segond 1910
Le poids et la balance justes sont à l'Eternel; Tous les poids du sac sont son ouvrage.
KJV
A just weight and balance [are] the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag [are] his work.
A just weight and balance [are] the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag [are] his work.
KJV
Hebrew original
פֶּ֤לֶס וּ/מֹאזְנֵ֣י מִ֭שְׁפָּט לַֽ/יהוָ֑ה מַ֝עֲשֵׂ֗/הוּ כָּל אַבְנֵי כִֽיס
Patristic reading
3Salonius
Mystical Exposition on the Proverbs of Solomon
says, "The Lord's decisions are like weights and scales, and all His works are measured accurately" (Proverbs 16:11)? How are weights and scales related to the Lord's decisions? Because the Lord established everything in weight, measure, and number, Wisdom 11. Weight and balance…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 172 (Migne)
t aliquando diu currunt, et in itinere fatigati, deficiunt, et turpiter ut canes ad vomitum redeunt (Prov. XVI, 11; II Petr. II, 22) . De civibus Babyloniae in particulari, et primo de his qui sunt principes et judices super alios. Veni huc ad supercilium montis, unde cu…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 181 (Migne)
vitae meritum coelestibus appropinquant? Salomon vero dicit, quia «pondus et statera judicia Domini (Prov. XVI, 11) » sunt, Libravit igitur in pondere montes, et colles in statera, quia sanctos in judiciorum suorum justo moderamine, sicut [Col. 0383C] supra dictum est, ad alta…
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