17 occurrences across the corpus

King James Version

Job 31:6

Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity.

Psalms 62:9

Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

Proverbs 11:1

A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.

Proverbs 16:11

A just weight and balance are the LORDs: all the weights of the bag are his work.

Proverbs 20:23

Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.

Isaiah 40:12

Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

Isaiah 40:15

Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.

Isaiah 46:6

They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.

KJV Apocrypha (Catholic Deuterocanon)

Wisdom of Solomon 11:22

For the whole world before thee is as a little grain of the balance, yea, as a drop of the morning dew that falleth down upon the earth.

Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 21:25

The lips of talkers will be telling such things as pertain not unto them: but the words of such as have understanding are weighed in the balance.

Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 28:25

And weigh thy words in a balance, and make a door and bar for thy mouth.

Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 42:4

Of exactness of balance and weights; or of getting much or little;

2 Maccabees 9:8

And thus he that a little afore thought he might command the waves of the sea, (so proud was he beyond the condition of man) and weigh the high mountains in a balance, was now cast on the ground, and carried in an horselitter, shewing forth unto all the manifest power of God.

KJV Apocrypha (Eastern Orthodox Additions)

2 Esdras 3:34

Weigh thou therefore our wickedness now in the balance, and theirs also that dwell the world; and so shall thy name no where be found but in Israel.

2 Esdras 4:36

And unto these things Uriel the archangel gave them answer, and said, Even when the number of seeds is filled in you: for he hath weighed the world in the balance.

1 Enoch

1 Enoch 43:1

I beheld another splendour, and the stars of heaven. I observed that he called them all by their respective names, and that they heard. In a righteous balance I saw that he weighed out with their light the amplitude of their places, and the day of their appearance, and their conversion. Splendour produced splendour; and their conversion _was_ into the number of the angels, and of the faithful.

1 Enoch 61:11

Who shall judge all the works of the holy, in heaven above, and in a balance shall he weigh their actions. And when he shall lift up his countenance to judge their secret ways in the word of the name of the Lord of spirits, and their progress in the path of the righteous judgment of God most high;