Proverbs 16:11 Explained in Context

Read It With

• Proverbs 16:10–13

Read Proverbs 16:11 with 16:10–13. Read alone, “A just weight and balance are the LORD’s: all the weights of…” could turn a compressed observation, warning, comparison, or command into a guarantee or complete policy. The full unit establishes: opens with “A divine sentence is in the lips of the king” and develops the line through “his mouth transgresseth not in judgment”; by 16:13, it uses two-part parallelism to place “Righteous lips are the delight of kings” beside “and they love him that speaketh right”. Together the unit concentrates on justice, truthful judgment, and protection from exploitation, speech, listening, truth, and relational consequence, kingship, public authority, and accountable rule within “First Solomonic sentence-saying collection.”

Why This Verse Appears Here

Proverbs 16:10–13 forms a reviewed local cluster inside “First Solomonic sentence-saying collection.” Its lines concentrate on justice, truthful judgment, and protection from exploitation, speech, listening, truth, and relational consequence, kingship, public authority, and accountable rule, while each sentence proverb retains its own force and the neighboring database unit does not supply its meaning. Within that relationship, this verse opens with “A just weight and balance are the LORD’s” and develops the line through “all the weights of the bag are his work”.