Proverbs 16:10 - The Scriptures 1998

¹⁰ An oath is on the lips of the sovereign, In right-ruling his mouth trespasses not.

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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.

Proverbs 16:10 Cross References

Genesis 44:15

And Yosĕ

Genesis 44:5

‘Is this not the one from which my master drinks, and with which he indeed divines? You have done evil in what you have done.’ ”

2 Samuel 14:16

for the sovereign has listened to deliver his female servant from the hand of the man seeking to destroy me and my son together from the inheritance of Elohim.’

1 Kings 3:28

And all Yisra’ĕ

2 Chronicles 26:16

But when he became strong his heart was lifted up, to his destruction, for he trespassed against יהוה  his Elohim by entering the Hĕ

Psalm 99:4

And the strength of the Sovereign Shall love right-ruling; You Yourself shall establish straightness; You shall execute right-ruling And righteousness in Yaʽ

Proverbs 29:4

A sovereign establishes a land by right-ruling, But one who receives bribes throws it down.

Hosea 10:4

They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant. Therefore judgment shall spring up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

Amos 5:7

“O you who are turning right-ruling to wormwood, and have cast down righteousness to the earth!”

Amos 6:12

Do horses run on a rock? Does one plough it with oxen? For you have turned right-ruling into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,