Proverbs 29:26 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁶ Many seek the favor of a ruler, but it is from the Lord that one gets justice.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ Many seek the ruler's favour; But every man's judgment cometh from the LORD.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ Many crave and seek the ruler's favor, but the wise man [waits] for justice from the Lord.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ Many seek the ruler’s favor; But a man’s judgment cometh from Jehovah.

Common English Bible

²⁶ Many seek access to the ruler, but justice comes from the LORD.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ Many demand the face of the leader. But the judgment of each one proceeds from the Lord.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ Many seek the face of the prince: but the judgment of every one cometh forth from the Lord.

Proverbs 29:26 Krydshenvisninger

Genesis 43:14

may God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, so that he may send back your other brother and Benjamin. As for me, if I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”

2 Samuel 14:1

Now Joab son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s mind was on Absalom.

Nehemiah 1:11

O Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant and to the prayer of your servants who delight in revering your name. Give success to your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man!” At the time, I was cupbearer to the king.

Esther 4:16

“Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and neither eat nor drink for three days, night or day. I and my maids will also fast as you do. After that I will go to the king, though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish.”

Psalm 20:9

Give victory to the king, O Lord; answer us when we call.

Psalm 62:12

and steadfast love belongs to you, O Lord. For you repay to all according to their work.

Proverbs 16:14

A king’s wrath is a messenger of death, and whoever is wise will appease it.

Proverbs 16:15

In the light of a king’s face there is life, and his favor is like the clouds that bring the spring rain.

Proverbs 16:33

The lot is cast into the lap, but the decision is the Lord’s alone.

Proverbs 16:7

When the ways of people please the Lord, he causes even their enemies to be at peace with them.

Proverbs 19:21

The human mind may devise many plans, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will be established.

Proverbs 19:6

Many seek the favor of the generous, and everyone is a friend to a giver of gifts.

Proverbs 21:1

The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he will.

Isaiah 49:4

But I said, “I have labored in vain; I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely my cause is with the Lord and my reward with my God.”

Daniel 4:35

All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does what he wills with the host of heaven and the inhabitants of the earth. There is no one who can stay his hand or say to him, “What have you done?”

1 Corinthians 4:4

I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.