Proverbs 16:10

English Standard Version 2016

An oracle is on the lips of a king; his mouth does not sin in judgment.

Cross References

Genesis 44:15

Joseph said to them, “What deed is this that you have done? Do you not know that a man like me can indeed practice divination?”

Genesis 44:5

Is it not from this that my lord drinks, and by this that he practices divination? You have done evil in doing this.’”

Amos 5:7

O you who turn justice to wormwood and cast down righteousness to the earth!

Hosea 10:4

They utter mere words; with empty oaths they make covenants; so judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

1 Kings 3:28

And all Israel heard of the judgment that the king had rendered, and they stood in awe of the king, because they perceived that the wisdom of God was in him to do justice.

Amos 6:12

Do horses run on rocks? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—

Psalm 99:4

The King in his might loves justice. You have established equity; you have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.

2 Chronicles 26:16

But when he was strong, he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was unfaithful to the Lord his God and entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense.

2 Samuel 14:16

For the king will hear and deliver his servant from the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together from the heritage of God.’

Proverbs 29:4

By justice a king builds up the land, but he who exacts gifts tears it down.