See here, 1. The various arts of deceiving that men have, all which
evils the love of money is the root of. In paying and receiving money,
which was then commonly done by the scale, they had divers weights, an
under-weight for what they paid and an over-weight for what they
received; in delivering out and taking in goods they had divers
measures, a scanty measure to sell by and a large measure to buy by.
This was done wrong with plot and contrivance, and under colour of
doing right. Under these is included all manner of fraud and deceit in
commerce and trade. 2. The displeasure of God against them. Whether
they be about the money or the goods, in the buyer or in the seller,
they are all alike an abomination to the Lord. He will not prosper the
trade that is thus driven, nor bless what is thus got. He hates those
that thus break the common faith by which justice is maintained, and
will be the avenger of all such.