Proverbs 25:2

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

The glory of God is to cover a word; and the glory of kings is to seek out a word.

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:5

And David said to the young man, that told to him, Whereof knowest thou, that Saul is dead, and Jonathan, his son?

2 Samuel 14:19

And the king said, Whether the hand of Joab is with thee in all these things? The woman answered, and said, By the health of thy soul, my lord the king, neither to the left side neither to the right side is anything of all these things, which my lord the king hath spoken. For thy servant Joab himself commanded to me, and he putted [or put] all these words into the mouth of thine handmaid,

Ezra 4:15

that thou account and seek in the books of [the] stories of thy fathers, and thou shalt find written in chronicles, and thou shalt know, that that city Jerusalem is a rebel city, and that it annoyeth kings and provinces, and that battles be raised therein of eld [or old] days; wherefore also that city was destroyed.

Ezra 4:19

and it was commanded of me, and they reckoned, and they found, that that city rebelleth of eld [or old] days against kings, and dissensions and battles be raised therein;

Ezra 5:17

Now therefore, if it seemeth good to the king, reckon he in the biblet or library of the king, which is in Babylon, whether it be commanded of king Cyrus, that God’s house should be builded in Jerusalem; and send he to us the will of the king on this thing.

Ezra 6:1

Then king Darius commanded, and they reckoned, or sought, in the biblet of books, which books were kept in Babylon.

Job 29:16

I was a father of poor men; and I inquired most diligently the cause, which I knew not.

Job 38:4

Where were thou, when I set the foundaments of the earth? show thou to me, if thou hast understanding.

Job 40:2

Whether he, that striveth with God, shall have rest so lightly? Soothly he, that reproveth God, oweth for to answer to him.

Job 42:3

Who is this, that covereth counsel without knowing? Therefore I have spoken unwisely, and those things that pass over-measure my knowing.

Proverbs 25:27

As it is not good to him that eateth much honey; so he that is a searcher of majesty, shall be put down from glory.

Proverbs 25:3

Heaven above, and the earth beneath, and the heart of kings is unsearchable.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

and I purposed in my soul to seek and ensearch wisely of all things, that be made under the sun. God gave this evil occupation to the sons of men, that they should be occupied therein.

Deuteronomy 29:28

and he casted them out of their land, in wrath and strong vengeance, and in full great indignation; and he casted forth them into an alien land, as it is proved today.

Deuteronomy 29:29

Diverse things be hid, or privy, of our Lord God, that is, in his before-knowing, which things be showed to us, and to our sons without end, that we do all the words of this law.