Proverbs 25:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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

And David said unto the young man that told him, How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son be dead?

2 Samuel 14:19

And the king said, Is the hand of Joab with thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, As thy soul liveth, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from aught that my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thine handmaid;

Ezra 4:15

that search may be made in the book of the records of thy fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful unto kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time: for which cause was this city laid waste.

Ezra 4:19

And I decreed, and search hath been made, and it is found that this city of old time hath made insurrection against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein.

Ezra 5:17

Now therefore, if it seem good to the king, let there be search made in the king's treasure house, which is there at Babylon, whether it be so, that a decree was made of Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem, and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.

Ezra 6:1

Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the archives, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon.

Job 29:16

I was a father to the needy: And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.

Job 38:4

Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou hast understanding.

Job 40:2

Shall he that cavilleth contend with the Almighty? He that argueth with God, let him answer it.

Job 42:3

Who is this that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore have I uttered that which I understood not, Things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

Proverbs 25:27

It is not good to eat much honey: So for men to search out their own glory is not glory.

Proverbs 25:3

The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, And the heart of kings is unsearchable.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven: it is a sore travail that God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.

Deuteronomy 29:28

and the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as at this day.

Deuteronomy 29:29

The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but the things that are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.