Proverbs 16:10 - The Scriptures 2009

¹⁰ An oath is on the lips of the sovereign, In right-ruling his mouth trespasses not.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: His mouth transgresseth not in judgment.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ Divinely directed decisions are on the lips of the king; his mouth should not transgress in judgment.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁰ A divine sentence is in the lips of the king; His mouth shall not transgress in judgment.

Common English Bible

¹⁰ A king’s speech is like an oracle; in a judgment, one can’t go against his words.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ Foreknowledge is in the lips of the king. His mouth shall not err in judgment.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁰ Divination is in the lips of the king, his mouth shall not err in judgment.

Proverbs 16:10 Cross References

Genesis 44:15

And Yosĕph said to them, “What deed is this you have done? Did you not know that a man like me indeed divines?”

Genesis 44:5

Is this not the one from which my master drinks, and with which he indeed divines? You have done evil in what you have done.’ ”

2 Samuel 14:16

for the sovereign has listened to deliver his female servant from the hand of the man seeking to destroy me and my son together from the inheritance of Elohim.’

1 Kings 3:28

And all Yisra’ĕl heard of the right-ruling which the sovereign had rendered. And they feared the sovereign, for they saw that the wisdom of Elohim was in him to do right-ruling.

2 Chronicles 26:16

But when he became strong his heart was lifted up, to his destruction, for he trespassed against יהוה his Elohim by entering the Hĕḵal of יהוה to burn incense on the slaughter-place of incense.

Psalm 99:4

And the strength of the Sovereign Shall love right-ruling; You Yourself shall establish straightness; You shall execute right-ruling And righteousness in Ya‛aqoḇ.

Proverbs 29:4

A sovereign establishes a land by right-ruling, But one who receives bribes throws it down.

Hosea 10:4

They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant. Therefore judgment shall spring up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

Amos 5:7

“O you who are turning right-ruling to wormwood, and have cast down righteousness to the earth!”

Amos 6:12

Do horses run on a rock? Does one plough it with oxen? For you have turned right-ruling into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,