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Proverbs 11 Bible study: Accurate weights
One frame holds a pair of scales and a heart: "A false balance is an abomination to the LORD, but accurate weights are his delight" (11:1), and the perverse in heart are "an abomination to the LORD", the blameless "his delight" (11:20). And the Hebrew word for righteousness, tsedaqah, comes five times in this chapter, more than in any other chapter of Proverbs.
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A scale and a heart
The chapter opens with a pair of scales: "A false balance is an abomination to the LORD, but accurate weights are his delight" (11:1) (tap abomination, delight). Later the same frame comes back, and this time it is about the heart: "Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination to the LORD, but those whose ways are blameless are his delight" (11:20). In Hebrew both verses set to'evah, abomination, beside ratson, delight, and Proverbs does it in two more sayings: "Lying lips are an abomination to the LORD, but those who do the truth are his delight" (Proverbs 12:22), and "The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is his delight" (Proverbs 15:8). Here is what almost everyone misses: one frame holds a pair of scales and a person's heart. The law has some of 11:1's words too: "You shall have a perfect and just weight" (Deuteronomy 25:15), where perfect … weight is the Hebrew of 11:1's accurate weights, and "For all who do such things, all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to the LORD your God" (Deuteronomy 25:16).
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The Hebrew word behind it
צְדָקָהtsedaqahsay tse-da-KAH
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "righteousness". Strong's: "rightness (abstractly)". The chapter has it five times: "righteousness delivers from death" (11:4), "The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way" (11:5), "The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them" (11:6), "one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward" (11:18), and "He who is truly righteous gets life" (11:19), where the WEB gives it as truly righteous. Proverbs has it 18 times in Hebrew, and no other chapter of Proverbs has it more than three times.
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Proverbs 11 Bible study questions
- 1"When pride comes, then comes shame, but with humility comes wisdom" (11:2). Why do you think humility and wisdom go together?
- 2"One who brings gossip betrays a confidence, but one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret" (11:13). What makes someone safe to confide in, and what makes it hard to keep a confidence?
- 3"in the multitude of counselors there is victory" (11:14). Whose counsel do you seek when you have a hard choice to make, and what makes it easy or hard to ask?
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