Proverbs 16:10

A Conservative Version

A divine sentence is in the lips of the king. His mouth shall not transgress in judgment.

Cross References

Genesis 44:15

And Joseph said to 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 that in which my lord drinks, and how he indeed divines? Ye have done evil in so doing.

Amos 5:7

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

Hosea 10:4

They speak [vain] words, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.

1 Kings 3:28

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

Amos 6:12

Shall horses run upon the rock? Will [a man] plow [there] with oxen? That ye have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,

Psalm 99:4

The king's strength also loves justice. Thou establish equity. Thou execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.

2 Chronicles 26:16

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

2 Samuel 14:16

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

Proverbs 29:4

By justice the king establishes the land, but he who exacts gifts overthrows it.