Proverbs 16:10 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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 Joseph said unto them, What deed is this that ye have done? know ye not that such a man as I can indeed divine?

Genesis 44:5

Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby he indeed divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.

2 Samuel 14:16

For the king will hear to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.

1 Kings 3:28

And all Israel heard of the judgement which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do judgement.

2 Chronicles 26:16

But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up so that he did corruptly, and he trespassed against the LORD his God; for he went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.

Psalm 99:4

The king's strength also loveth judgement; Thou dost establish equity, Thou executest judgement and righteousness in Jacob.

Proverbs 29:4

The king by judgement establisheth the land: But he that exacteth gifts overthroweth it.

Hosea 10:4

They speak vain words, swearing falsely in making covenants: therefore judgement springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.

Amos 5:7

Ye who turn judgement to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth;

Amos 6:12

Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? that ye have turned judgement into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood: