PROVERBS CHAPTER 11.
V. 1. A false balance, literally, “balances of deceit,” is abomination to the Lord, cheating in business is loathsome to Him; but a just weight, literally, “a stone of fullness,” a complete measure, for the Jews commonly used stones as weights in their balances, is His delight.
V. 2. When pride cometh, that is, when a person becomes self-conceited and arrogant, then cometh shame, for such a person is beyond teaching and is bound finally to make a fool of himself; but with the lowly is wisdom, they are not beyond learning, and therefore grow wise.
V. 3. The integrity of the upright, their innocence and rectitude, shall guide them; but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them, for their malicious transgressions eventually plunge them into ruin.