This is to the same purport with what was said v. 20. 1. It is here
repeated, because it is a sin that God doubly hates (as lying, which is
of the same nature with this sin, is mentioned twice among the seven
things that God hates, ch. vi. 17, 19), and because it was probably a
sin very much practised at that time in Israel, and therefore made
light of as if there were no harm in it, under pretence that, being
commonly used, there was no trading without it. 2. It is here added, A
false balance is not good, to intimate that it is not only abominable
to God, but unprofitable to the sinner himself; there is really no good
to be got by it, no, not a good bargain, for a bargain made by fraud
will prove a losing bargain in the end.