Proverbs 25:2
It is to the glory of God to conceal a word, and it is to the glory of kings to investigate speech.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
In Context
1These, too, are parables of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah, king of Judah, transferred.
3Heaven above, and earth below, and the heart of kings are each unsearchable.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:29These hidden things of the Lord our God have been revealed to us and to our sons in perpetuity, so that we may accomplish all the words of this law.”
2 Samuel 14:19And the king said, “Is not the hand of Joab with you in all this?” And the woman answered and said: “By the welfare of your soul, my lord the king, it is neither to the left, nor to the right, in all these things that my lord the king has spoken. For your servant Joab himself instructed me, and he himself placed all these words in the mouth of your handmaid.
1 Kings 3:16Then two women harlots went to the king, and they stood before him.
1 Kings 4:29And God gave wisdom to Solomon, and an exceedingly great prudence, and a spacious heart, like the sand which is on the shore of the sea.
Ezra 4:19And it was commanded by me, and they searched and found that this city, from the days of antiquity, has rebelled against the kings, and that seditions and battles have been incited within it.
Job 11:7By chance, will you comprehend the footsteps of God and reach all the way to the perfection of the Almighty?
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 25:2
Pleasures and Advantages of Wisdom. 1 These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out. This verse is the title of this latter collection of Solomon's proverbs, for he sought out and set in order many proverbs, that by them he might be still teaching the people knowledge, Eccl. xii. 9 . Observe, 1. The proverbs were Solomon's, who was divinely inspired to deliver, for the use of the church, these wise and weighty sentences; we have had many, but still there are more. Yet… Read the whole commentary →