Proverbs 16:10 - New Revised Standard Version

Inspired decisions are on the lips of a king; his mouth does not sin in judgment.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: His mouth transgresseth not in judgment.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Divinely directed decisions are on the lips of the king; his mouth should not transgress in judgment.

American Standard Version (1901)

A divine sentence is in the lips of the king; His mouth shall not transgress in judgment.

Common English Bible

A king’s speech is like an oracle; in a judgment, one can’t go against his words.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Foreknowledge is in the lips of the king. His mouth shall not err in judgment.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Divination is in the lips of the king, his mouth shall not err in judgment.

Proverbs 16:10 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 44:15

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

Genesis 44:5

Is it not from this that my lord drinks? Does he not indeed use it for divination? You have done wrong in doing this.’ ”

2 Samuel 14:16

For the king will hear, and deliver his servant from the hand of the man who would cut both me and my son off from the heritage of God.’

1 Kings 3:28

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 execute justice.

2 Chronicles 26:16

But when he had become strong he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was false to the Lord his God, and entered the temple of the Lord to make offering on the altar of incense.

Psalm 99:4

Mighty King, lover of justice, you have established equity; you have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.

Proverbs 29:4

By justice a king gives stability to the land, but one who makes heavy exactions ruins it.

Hosea 10:4

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

Amos 5:7

Ah, you that turn justice to wormwood, and bring righteousness to the ground!

Amos 6:12

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