Proverbs 25:2

A Conservative Version

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:29

The secret things belong to LORD our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

Job 42:3

Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge? Therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.

Job 38:4

Where were thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou have understanding.

Job 29:16

I was a father to the needy, and I searched out the case of him whom I did not know.

Ezra 4:15

that search may be made in the book of the records of thy fathers. So thou shall find in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful to kings and provinces. And that they have made sedition wi

Ezra 4:19

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

Job 40:2

Shall he who quibbles contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.

Ezra 5:17

Now therefore, if it seems 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 from Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem, an

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.

Proverbs 25:3

As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth, so the heart of kings is unsearchable.

Deuteronomy 29:28

And 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.

2 Samuel 1:5

And David said to the young man who told him, How do thou know that Saul and Jonathan his son are 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 lives, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken, for

Proverbs 25:27

It is not good to eat much honey, so [for men] to search out their own glory is grievous.

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 great tribulation that God has given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.