Proverbs 16:10
If God directs what a king says, what he decides is always right/fair.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresseth not in judgment.
In Context
9People plan what they want to do, but Yahweh directs/determines what they will really be able to do.
Cross References
Genesis 44:15He said to them, “Why did you do this? Do you not know that a man like me can find out things that nobody knows?” [RHQ]
2 Samuel 14:16Perhaps he will listen to me, and save me from the man who is trying to kill my son. If my son is killed, it would result in us disappearing from the land that God gave to us.’
1 Kings 3:28All the Israeli people heard about what the king had decided, and they revered him. They realized that God had truly enabled him to be very wise, to judge people’s matters fairly.
Psalms 72:1O God, enable me, the king whom you appointed in Israel, to rule justly. Show/Teach me how to judge matters fairly
Proverbs 16:12Kings detest those who do evil, because it is people doing what is fair/right that causes their governments to be [MTY] strong.
Isaiah 32:1Listen to this! Some day there will be a righteous king, and his officials will help him to rule justly/fairly.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 16:10
9 A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps. Man is here represented to us, 1. As a reasonable creature, that has the faculty of contriving for himself: His heart devises his way, designs an end, and projects ways and means leading to that end, which the inferior creatures, who are governed by sense and natural instinct, cannot do. The more shame for him if he do not devise the way how to please God and provide for his everlasting state. 2. But as a depending creature, that is subject to the… Read the whole commentary →