Quotes about Weighing
And when he cut the hair of his head—he shaved it every year because his hair got so heavy—he would weigh it out to be two hundred shekels, according to the royal standard.
- 2 Samuel 14:26
I weighed out into their hands 650 talents of silver, articles of silver weighing 100 talents, 100 talents of gold,
- Ezra 8:26
Guard them carefully until you weigh them out in the chambers of the house of the LORD in Jerusalem before the leading priests, Levites, and heads of the Israelite families.”
- Ezra 8:29
On the fourth day, in the house of our God, we weighed out the silver and gold and sacred articles into the hand of Meremoth son of Uriah, the priest. Eleazar son of Phinehas was with him, along with the Levites Jozabad son of Jeshua and Noadiah son of Binnui.
- Ezra 8:33
let God weigh me with honest scales, that He may know my integrity.
- Job 31:6
Dishonest scales are an abomination to the LORD, but an accurate weight is His delight.
- Proverbs 11:1
Honest scales and balances are from the LORD; all the weights in the bag are His concern.
- Proverbs 16:11
You are to weigh out twenty shekels of food to eat each day, and you are to eat it at set times.
- Ezekiel 4:10
Wail, O dwellers of the Hollow, for all your merchants will be silenced; all who weigh out silver will be cut off.
- Zephaniah 1:11
She disliked this cautious weighing of consequences, instead of an ardent faith in efforts of justice and mercy, which would conquer by their emotional force.
- George Eliot
The fashion industry has a responsibility to represent a healthy image of women, but to start weighing them and putting them against a wall and making them feel like animals? No.
- Diane von Furstenberg