Proverbs 25:2
It is the Kavod Elohim to conceal a thing, 1 but the kavod melachim is to search out a matter. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
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 are also mishlei Sh'lomo, 1 which the anashim of Chizkiyah Melech Yehudah 1 copied out: 1
3The Shomayim for height, and Eretz for depth, 1 so the lev melachim is unsearchable. 1
Cross References
2 Samuel 14:19And HaMelech said, Is not the yad Yoav with thee in all this? And the isha answered and said, As thy nefesh liveth, adoni HaMelech, none can turn to the right or to the left from anything that adoni HaMelech hath spoken; for thy eved Yoav, he instructed me, and he put all these devarim in the peh (mouth) of thine shifchah (handmaid);
1 Kings 3:16Then came there two nashim, that were zonot (harlots, prostitutes) unto HaMelech, and stood before him.
Ezra 4:19And I commanded, and search hath been made, and it is found that this city for a long time hath made insurrection against melachim, and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein.
Job 11:7Canst thou search out the cheker Eloah (depths of G-d)? 1 Canst thou probe to the tachlis Shaddai (the end, completeness of Almighty)? 1
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 →