Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, 1 but the glory of kings to search it out. 1
Unlocked Literal 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 more proverbs of Solomon, copied by the men of Hezekiah, king of Judah. 1
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:29The secret matters belong alone to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong forever to us and to our descendants, so that we may do all the words of this law.
2 Samuel 14:19The king said, “Is not the hand of Joab with you in all this?” The woman answered and said, “As you live, my master the king, no one can escape to the right hand or to the left from anything that my master the king has spoken. It was your servant Joab who commanded me and told me to say these things that your servant has spoken.
1 Kings 3:16Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.
1 Kings 4:29God gave Solomon great wisdom and understanding, and wideness of understanding like the sand on the seashore.
Ezra 4:19So I ordered an investigation and discovered that in previous days they had rebelled and revolted against kings.
Job 11:7Can you understand God by searching for him? 1 Can you comprehend the Almighty perfectly? 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 →