65. Every kind of unfair action is
shameful. Even in common things, false weights and unjust
measures are accursed. And if fraud in the market or in business
is punished, can it seem free from reproach if found in the midst of
the performance of the duties of virtue? Solomon says:
“A great and a little weight and divers measures are an
abomination before the Lord.” Prov. xx. 10. Before
that it also says: “A false balance is abomination to the
Lord, but a just weight is acceptable to Him.” Prov. xi. 1.