Proverbs 16:10

Modern English Version

An oracle is on the lips of the king; his mouth must not transgress in judgment.

Cross References

Genesis 44:15

Joseph said to them, “What deed is this that you have done? Did you not know that such a man as I can certainly practice divination?”

Genesis 44:5

Is this not the one from which my lord drinks and uses as he practices divination? You have done evil in doing this.’ ”

2 Samuel 14:16

For the king may accept my request to deliver his servant from the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son from the inheritance of God.’

1 Kings 3:28

All Israel heard of the king’s judgment, and they feared the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to execute sound judgment.

2 Chronicles 26:16

And as he grew strong, his heart grew more proud, leading to his destruction. Then he acted unfaithfully against the Lord his God, for he entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar.

Psalm 99:4

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

Proverbs 29:4

The king by justice establishes the land, but a man of bribes overthrows it.

Hosea 10:4

They speak mere words, swearing falsely in making a covenant. Thus judgment springs up like a poisonous plant in the furrows of the field.

Amos 5:7

You who turn justice into bitterness and cast righteousness down to the ground!

Amos 6:12

Can horses run on a rocky crag? Can one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,