Proverbs 25:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: But the honour of kings is to search out a matter.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a thing. [Deut. 29:29; Rom. 11:33.]

American Standard Version (1901)

² It is the glory of God to conceal a thing; But the glory of kings is to search out a matter.

Common English Bible

² It is the glory of God to hide something and the glory of kings to discover something.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² It is to the glory of God to conceal a word, and it is to the glory of kings to investigate speech.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² It is the glory of God to conceal the word, and the glory of kings to search out the speech.

Proverbs 25:2 Cross References

2 Samuel 1:5

Then David asked the young man who was reporting to him, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan died?”

2 Samuel 14:19

The king said, “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?” The woman answered and said, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, one cannot turn right or left from anything that my lord the king has said. For it was your servant Joab who commanded me; it was he who put all these words into the mouth of your servant.

Ezra 4:15

so that a search may be made in the annals of your ancestors. You will discover in the annals that this is a rebellious city, hurtful to kings and provinces, and that sedition was stirred up in it from long ago. On that account this city was laid waste.

Ezra 4:19

So I made a decree, and someone searched and discovered that this city has risen against kings from long ago and that rebellion and sedition have been made in it.

Ezra 5:17

And now, if it seems good to the king, have a search made in the royal archives there in Babylon, to see whether a decree was issued by King Cyrus for the rebuilding of this house of God in Jerusalem. Let the king send us his pleasure in this matter.”

Ezra 6:1

Then King Darius made a decree, and they searched the archives where the documents were stored in Babylon.

Job 29:16

I was a father to the needy, and I championed the cause of the stranger.

Job 38:4

“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.

Job 40:2

“Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Anyone who argues with God must respond.”

Job 42:3

‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me that I did not know.

Proverbs 25:27

It is not good to eat much honey or to seek honor on top of honor.

Proverbs 25:3

Like the heavens for height, like the earth for depth, so the mind of kings is unsearchable.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

I applied my mind to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven; it is an unhappy business that God has given to humans to be busy with.

Deuteronomy 29:28

The Lord uprooted them from their land in anger, fury, and great wrath and cast them into another land, as is now the case.’

Deuteronomy 29:29

The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the revealed things belong to us and to our children forever, to observe all the words of this law.