Proverbs 29:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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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

When his master heard the words that his wife spoke to him, saying, “This is the way your servant treated me,” he became enraged.

1 Kings 12:14

and spoke to them according to the advice of the young men, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.”

2 Kings 21:9

But they did not listen; Manasseh misled them to do more evil than the nations had done that the Lord destroyed before the people of Israel.

Proverbs 20:8

A king who sits on the throne of judgment winnows all evil with his eyes.

Proverbs 25:23

The north wind produces rain, and a backbiting tongue, angry looks.

Jeremiah 37:2

But neither he nor his servants nor the people of the land listened to the words of the Lord that he spoke through the prophet Jeremiah.

1 Samuel 18:22

Saul commanded his servants, “Speak to David in private and say, ‘See, the king is delighted with you, and all his servants love you; now then, become the king’s son-in-law.’ ”