THEOSISProverbs 16:10Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Divination is in the lips of the king, his mouth shall not err in judgment.
קֶ֤סֶם ׀ עַֽל־שִׂפְתֵי־מֶ֑לֶךְ בְּ֝מִשְׁפָּ֗ט לֹ֣א יִמְעַל־פִּֽיו׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Isa 32:1Behold a king shall reign in justice, and princes shall rule in judgment.
- Isa 32:2And a man shall be as when one is hid from the wind, and hideth himself from a storm, as rivers of waters in drought, and the shadow of a rock that standeth out in a desert land.
- Gen 44:5The cup which you have stolen, is that in which my lord drinketh, and in which he is wont to divine: you have done a very evil thing.
- Jer 23:5Behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will raise up to David a just branch: and a king shall reign, and shall be wise: and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
- Jer 23:6In those days shall Juda be saved, and Israel shall dwell confidently: and this is the name that they shall call him: The Lord our just one.
- Gen 44:15And he said to them: Why would you do so? know you not that there is no one like me in the science of divining.
- Amos 5:7You that turn judgment into wormwood, and forsake justice in the land,
- Ps 45 (44):6