Proverbs 16:10
Modern Translations
New International Version
The lips of a king speak as an oracle, and his mouth does not betray justice.

New Living Translation
The king speaks with divine wisdom; he must never judge unfairly.

English Standard Version
An oracle is on the lips of a king; his mouth does not sin in judgment.

Berean Study Bible
A divine verdict is on the lips of a king; his mouth must not betray justice.

New American Standard Bible
A divine verdict is on the lips of the king; His mouth should not err in judgment.

NASB 1995
A divine decision is in the lips of the king; His mouth should not err in judgment.

NASB 1977
A divine decision is in the lips of the king; His mouth should not err in judgment.

Amplified Bible
A divine decision [given by God] is on the lips of the king [as His representative]; His mouth should not be unfaithful or unjust in judgment.

Christian Standard Bible
God’s verdict is on the lips of a king; his mouth should not give an unfair judgment.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
God's verdict is on the lips of a king; his mouth should not give an unfair judgment.

Contemporary English Version
Rulers speak with authority and are never wrong.

Good News Translation
The king speaks with divine authority; his decisions are always right.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
When a divine revelation is on a king's lips, he cannot voice a wrong judgment.

International Standard Version
When a king is ready to speak officially, what he says should not err with respect to justice.

NET Bible
The divine verdict is in the words of the king, his pronouncements must not act treacherously against justice.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresseth not in judgment.

New King James Version
Divination is on the lips of the king; His mouth must not transgress in judgment.

King James 2000 Bible
A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresses not in judgment.

New Heart English Bible
Inspired judgments are on the lips of the king. He shall not betray his mouth.

World English Bible
Inspired judgments are on the lips of the king. He shall not betray his mouth.

American King James Version
A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresses not in judgment.

American Standard Version
A divine sentence is in the lips of the king; His mouth shall not transgress in judgment.

A Faithful Version
A divine sentence is in the lips of the king; his mouth should not transgress in judgment.

Darby Bible Translation
An oracle is on the lips of the king: his mouth will not err in judgment.

English Revised Version
A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth shall not transgress in judgment.

Webster's Bible Translation
A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresseth not in judgment.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
A diuine sentence shalbe in the lips of the King: his mouth shall not trasgresse in iudgement.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
When the prophecie is in the lippes of the kyng, his mouth shall not go wrong in iudgement.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
When ye prophecy is in ye lippes of ye kynge, his mouth shal not go wroge in iudgment.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
An oath [is] on the lips of a king, "" In judgment his mouth does not trespass.

Young's Literal Translation
An oath is on the lips of a king, In judgment his mouth trespasseth not.

Smith's Literal Translation
Divining upon the lips of the king: his mouth will not transgress in judgment.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Divination is in the lips of the king, his mouth shall not err in judgment.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Foreknowledge is in the lips of the king. His mouth shall not err in judgment.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
An oracle is upon the lips of the King, and his mouth will not err in judgment.

Lamsa Bible
Oracles are on the lips of the king; his mouth does not err in judgment.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
A divine sentence is in the lips of the king; His mouth trespasseth not in judgment.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
There is an oracle upon the lips of a king; and his mouth shall not err in judgement.
















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