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Weighing scales made with sinews are a trap made for the feet; a man should not take a merchant for his friend.

Sumerian proverb, Collection III at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, 3rd millennium BCE.
Variant: "Scales made with sinews are a trap contrived of dishonesty; should a man then take a merchant for his friend?" [1]

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