Proverbs 16:10

New King James Version

Divination is on the lips of the king; His mouth must not transgress in judgment.

Cross References

Genesis 44:15

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

Genesis 44:5

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

2 Samuel 14:16

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

1 Kings 3:28

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

2 Chronicles 26:16

But when he was strong his heart was lifted up, to his destruction, for he transgressed against the Lord his God by entering the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense.

Psalm 99:4

The King’s strength also loves justice; You have established equity; You have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.

Proverbs 29:4

The king establishes the land by justice, But he who receives bribes overthrows it.

Hosea 10:4

They have spoken words, Swearing falsely in making a covenant. Thus judgment springs up like hemlock in the furrows of the field.

Amos 5:7

You who turn justice to wormwood, And lay righteousness to rest in the earth!”

Amos 6:12

Do horses run on rocks? Does one plow there with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into gall, And the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,