Proverbs 16:10 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁰ Inspired decisions are on the lips of a king; his mouth does not sin in judgment.

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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

Joseph said to them, “What deed is this that you have done? Do you not know that such a man as I can indeed divine?”

Genesis 44:5

Is it not from this that my lord drinks, and by this that he divines? You have done wrong in so doing.’ ”

2 Samuel 14:16

For the king will hear, and deliver his servant from the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together from the heritage of God.’

1 Kings 3:28

And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had rendered; and they stood in awe of the king, because they perceived that the wisdom of God was in him, to render justice.

2 Chronicles 26:16

But when he was strong he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was false to the Lord his God, and entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense.

Psalm 99:4

Mighty King, lover of justice, thou hast established equity; thou hast executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.

Proverbs 29:4

By justice a king gives stability to the land, but one who exacts gifts ruins it.

Hosea 10:4

They utter mere words; with empty oaths they make covenants; so judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

Amos 5:7

O you who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth!

Amos 6:12

Do horses run upon rocks? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—