PROVERBS CHAPTER 16.
V. 10. A divine sentence is in the lips of the king, he, in his position as sovereign, makes his decision as the representative of Yahweh; his mouth transgresseth not in judgment, he may not use his power for his own private interests by arbitrarily setting aside true justice.
V. 11. A just weight and balance are the Lord’s, literally, “The scale and balances of justice belong to Yahweh,” His sovereign will directs their proper use, He wants business to be carried on without cheating; all the weights of the bag are His work, the stones which were commonly used as weights and carried by the merchant in a sack were, by the direction of God, to be honest weight.
V. 12. It is an abomination to kings, it makes them objects of loathing and contempt, to commit wickedness, the setting aside of right and justice causes both God and men to despise them; for the throne is established by righteousness, regal power is sustained by righteousness in its constant application, not by the arbitrariness of the despot.