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The people curse him who holds back grain, but a blessing is on the head of him who sells it. Proverbs 11:26

“But a blessing is on the head of him who sells it.” Here is another farmer who says, “I could probably get more for my grain if I held it back, but there are people who need it, so I will sell it to them.”

To only consider the bottom line, and not to weigh the common good will be cursed. To subordinate your own interest to the good of others will be blessed. “Do to others as you would have them do to you” (Luke 6:31, NIV).

“Unequal weights are an abomination to the Lord, and false scales are not good” (Prov. 20:23). Here we are in the market, and the customer wants to buy 10 pounds of grain. So the merchant pours the grain into a bucket, and on the other side of the scales he places a weight. The weight says 10 pounds, but it’s not, it’s actually 8 pounds. So when the scales balance, the customer gets shortchanged.

Proverbs says, “Unequal weights are an abomination to the Lord.” There are so many ways in which this can happen in business today. What’s hidden in the small print. The added costs that are not mentioned. Money will tempt you to control and cheat others.

Is there any place in your life where you have used an unequal weight? How could you make it right?