Proverbs 16:10

New American Bible - revised edition

An oracle is upon the king’s lips, no judgment of his mouth is false.

Cross References

Genesis 44:15

“How could you do such a thing?” Joseph asked them. “Did you not know that such a man as I could discern by divination what happened?”

Genesis 44:5

Is it not the very one from which my master drinks and which he uses for divination? What you have done is wrong.’”

2 Samuel 14:16

For the king must surely listen and rescue his servant from the grasp of one who would destroy both me and my son from the heritage of God.’

1 Kings 3:28

When all Israel heard the judgment the king had given, they were in awe of him, because they saw that the king had in him the wisdom of God for giving right judgment.

2 Chronicles 26:16

But after he had become strong, he became arrogant to his own destruction and acted treacherously with the Lord, his God. He entered the temple of the Lord to make an offering on the altar of incense.

Psalm 99:4

O mighty king, lover of justice, you have established fairness; you have created just rule in Jacob.

Proverbs 29:4

By justice a king builds up the land; but one who raises taxes tears it down.

Hosea 10:4

They make promises, swear false oaths, and make covenants, While lawsuits sprout like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field!

Amos 5:7

Woe to those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground,

Amos 6:12

Can horses run over rock, or can one plow the sea with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,