Proverbs 25:2
The glorie of God is to conceale a thing secret: but the Kings honour is to search out a thing.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 PARABLES of Salomon, which the men of Hezekiah King of Iudah copied out.
3The heaues in height, and the earth in deepenes, and the Kings heart can no man search out.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:29The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things reueiled belong vnto vs, and to our children for euer, that we may doe all the wordes of this Lawe.
2 Samuel 14:19And the King said, Is not the hand of Ioab with thee in all this? Then the woman answered, and sayd, As thy soule liueth, my lord the King, I will not turne to the right hande nor to the left, from ought that my lorde the King hath spoken: for euen thy seruant Ioab bade mee, and he put all these wordes in the mouth of thine handmayde.
1 Kings 3:16Then came two harlots vnto the King, and stoode before him.
1 Kings 4:29And God gaue Salomon wisdome and vnderstanding exceeding much, and a large heart, euen as the sand that is on the sea shore,
Ezra 4:19And I haue commanded and they haue searched, and founde, that this citie of olde time hath made insurrection against kings, and hath rebelled, and rebellion hath bene committed therein.
Job 11:7Canst thou by searching finde out God? canst thou finde out ye Almighty to his perfection?
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 →