5512 scales and balances

Weighing devices designed to ensure fair dealing. The terms are also used metaphorically in Scripture.

Scales and balances were used in business transactions

Jer 32:10

Scales and balances should not be used dishonestly

Exhortations to honest dealing Lev 19:35-36 See also Eze 45:10

The Lord hates dishonest dealing Pr 20:10 See also Pr 11:1; Pr 16:11; Pr 20:23

Dishonest dealing was one of the reasons for God’s judgment on his people Jer 5:1 See also Hos 12:6-7; Am 8:4-8; Mic 6:10-13

Scales and balances used metaphorically

To emphasise Job’s distress Job 6:2

To highlight God’s greatness Isa 40:15 See also Isa 40:12

Of God’s judgment Da 5:25-30 See also Eze 5:1-2; Rev 6:5-6

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