Proverbs 29:12 - The Scriptures 2009

If a ruler listens to lying words, All his servants become wrong.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

If a ruler hearken to lies, All his servants are wicked.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

If a ruler listens to falsehood, all his officials will become wicked.

American Standard Version (1901)

If a ruler hearkeneth to falsehood, All his servants are wicked.

Common English Bible

If a ruler listens to lies, those who serve him will be wicked.

Catholic Public Domain Version

A leader who freely listens to lying words has only impious servants.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

A prince that gladly heareth lying words, hath all his servants wicked.

Proverbs 29:12 Cross References

Genesis 39:19

And it came to be, when his master heard the words which his wife spoke to him, saying, “Your servant did to me according to these words,” that his displeasure burned.

1 Kings 12:14

and he spoke to them according to the advice of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I add to your yoke; my father flogged you with whips, but I, I flog you with scourges!”

2 Kings 21:9

But they did not obey, and Menashsheh led them astray to do more evil than the nations whom יהוה had destroyed before the children of Yisra’ĕl.

Proverbs 20:8

A sovereign who sits on the throne of judgment Is scattering all evil with his eyes.

Proverbs 25:23

The north wind brings rain, And a secret tongue an enraged face.

Jeremiah 37:2

But neither he nor his servants nor the people of the land had listened to the words of יהוה which He spoke by the prophet Yirmeyahu.

1 Samuel 18:22

And Sha’ul commanded his servants, “Speak to Dawiḏ gently, and say, ‘See, the sovereign has delighted in you, and all his servants have loved you. And now, be the sovereign’s son-in-law!’ ”