Proverbs 29:12

If a ruler ◄pays attention to/believes► people who tell lies, all his officials will also become wicked.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.

In Context

11People who are wise are patient and restrain/control themselves when they are angry, but foolish people ◄quickly show others that they are very angry/do not restrain themselves at all►.

13There is one thing that is true about both poor people and those who oppress them: Yahweh enables all of them to see.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 18:22Saul told his servants, “Talk to David privately, and say to him, ‘Listen, the king is pleased with you, and all of us his servants love you. So now we think that you should marry Michal and become the king’s son-in-law.’”

1 Samuel 23:19Some people from Ziph went to Saul when he was at Gibeah, and they told him, “David and his men are hiding in our land [RHQ]! They are hiding in places at Horesh on Hakilah Hill, south of a place named Jeshimon.

2 Samuel 4:5One day, Rechab and Baanah left their home to go to Ishbosheth’s house. They arrived there about noontime, when Ishbosheth was taking his midday nap.

2 Kings 10:6So Jehu sent a second letter to them, writing this: “If you ◄are on my side/want to help me►, and if you are ready to obey me, kill King Ahab’s descendants and cut off their heads and bring their heads to me here in Jezreel at this time tomorrow.” The seventy descendants of King Ahab were being brought up and supervised by the leaders of Samaria city.

Psalms 101:5I will get rid of anyone who secretly slanders someone else, and I will not ◄tolerate/allow to be near me► anyone who is proud and arrogant [DOU].

Proverbs 25:23When wind blows from the right direction, it will rain; similarly [SIM], if we gossip about others, that causes them to look at us very angrily.

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 29:12

11 A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards. Note, 1. It is a piece of weakness to be very open: He is a fool who utters all his mind, —who tells every thing he knows, and has in his mouth instantly whatever he has in his thoughts, and can keep no counsel,—who, whatever is started in discourse, quickly shoots his bolt,—who, when he is provoked, will say any thing that comes uppermost, whoever is reflected upon by it,—who, when he is to speak of any business, will say all he… Read the whole commentary →

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