Proverbs 25:2
The glory of God conceals a matter: but the glory of a king honors business.
LXX2012 (US English)
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
3Heaven is high, and earth is deep, and a king's heart is unsearchable.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:29The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children for ever, to do all the words of this law.
2 Samuel 14:19And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab in all this matter with you? and the woman said to the king, As your soul lives, my lord, O king, + 14:19 Gr. If there is, etc. there is no turning to the right hand or to the left from all that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab himself charged me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your handmaid.
1 Kings 3:16Then there appeared two harlots before the king, and they stood before him.
1 Kings 4:29And the Lord gave understanding to Solomon, and very much wisdom, and enlargement of heart, as the sand on the seashore.
Ezra 4:19And a decree has been made by me, and we have examined, and found that city of old time exalts itself against kings, and that rebellions and desertions take place within it.
Job 11:7Will you find out the traces of the Lord? or have you come to the end of that which the Almighty has made?
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 →