Zadai can be funny sometimes. He says he can mess with the scale in the bathroom and then watch when his wife goes to weigh herself. And he can make her either happy or sad by adjusting the scale.
He says It’s unjust scales, false weights, and false weights can make a person feel either happy, or sad and discouraged, depending on how you mess with the Weights. He can make his wife think there has been no consequence of overeating, which makes her happy, which is to deceive her, and he can discourage her when she does not overeat, which is also to deceive her.
It brought this verse to mind - you disheartened the righteous with falsehood when I did not cause him pain, but you have encouraged the wicked not to turn from his wicked way to keep him alive
Another translation - You have discouraged the righteous with your lies, but I didn’t want them to be sad. And you have encouraged the wicked by promising them life, even though they continue in their sins.
This verse and what it is saying to me is that you can control people and their eternal state by messing with the scale of things in scripture. You can discourage a man who does what is right and prevent him from entering the rest God has prepared for him now and you can encourage a man who does not do what is right and affect his eternal state.
If that doesn't explain where we are right now then I don’t know what does.
You mess with the scales and use unjust weights in a deal to cheat death that will not stand. You mess with the scale and say a man doing what is right is filthy rags, which is to take away the righteousness of the righteous, and you say a man not doing what is right is not only righteous but even holy, which takes away holiness, which is wickedness, iniquity.
When God judges, the first man will judged righteous by what he has done, despite what men have said, and the second man, who is neither righteous nor holy, will wail, despite what men have said.
His poor wife! Imagine the horror of living with a deceiver!
Have you considered the scenario from her perspective? Particularly if she has no awareness. He controls her through manipulation and she lacks the awareness (and discernment) to see what he is doing. She becomes a string puppet and he master. Worse! Some people gravitate toward such people and sit at their feet, handing them their strings willingly.