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Proverbs 29:12
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If a ruler listens to lies,all his officials will be wicked.
If a ruler listens to lies, All of his officials are wicked.
If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.
If a ruler listens to falsehood, all his officials will be wicked.
If a ruler pays attention to falsehood, All his ministers become wicked.
If a ruler pays attention to lies, all his officers will become wicked.
If a ruler pays attention to lies [and encourages corruption], All his officials will become wicked.
If a ruler listens to lies, All of his officials are wicked.
Of a prince that hearkeneth to lyes, all his seruants are wicked.
If a ruler pays attention to a lying word,All his ministers become wicked.
If a ruler listens to lies, all his officials will be wicked.
A ruler who listens to lies will have corrupt officials.
If a ruler listens to lies, all his officials will be wicked.
If a ruler hearken to lying words, all his servants are wicked.
If a ruler listens to lies, all his officials will be evil.
If a ruler listens to lies, all his servants are wicked.
If a ruler pays attention to false information, all his officials will be liars.
A ruler listening to a word of falsehood, all his officials are wicked.
To a ruler who listens to lying words, all his ministers are wicked.
If a prynce delyte in lyes, all his seruauntes are vngodly.
If a ruler hearkeneth to falsehood, All his servants are wicked.
If a ruler gives attention to false words, all his servants are evil-doers.
If a ruler hearkeneth to falsehood, all his servants are wicked.
If a ruler hearken to lies, all his seruants are wicked.
If a prince delight in lyes, all his seruauntes are vngodly.
A wise man, when evils are approaching, hides himself; but fools pass on, and will be punished.
If a ruler hearkeneth to falsehood, all his servants are wicked.
A prince that herith wilfuli the wordis of a leesyng; schal haue alle mynystris vnfeithful.
If a ruler harkens to falsehood, All his ministers are wicked.
If a ruler hearkeneth to lies, all his servants [are] wicked.
If a ruler listens to lies, all his ministers will be wicked.
If a ruler pays attention to lies, All his servants become wicked.
If a ruler pays attention to liars, all his advisers will be wicked.
If a ruler listens to lies, all who work for him will become sinful.
If a ruler listens to falsehood, all his officials will be wicked.
When a ruler giveth heed to the word of falsehood, all his attendants, become lawless.
A prince that gladly heareth lying words, hath all his servants wicked.
If a ruler listens to falsehood, all his officials will be wicked.
A ruler who is attending to lying words, All his ministers [are] wicked.
If a ruler pays attention to falsehood, All his ministers become wicked.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Proverbs 20:8, Proverbs 25:23, 1 Samuel 22:8-23, 1 Samuel 23:19-23, 2 Samuel 3:7-11, 2 Samuel 4:5-12, 1 Kings 21:11-13, 2 Kings 10:6, 2 Kings 10:7, Psalms 52:2-4, Psalms 101:5-7
Reciprocal: Genesis 12:15 - princes Genesis 39:19 - heard Exodus 5:10 - taskmasters Judges 16:17 - all his heart 1 Samuel 18:22 - servants 1 Samuel 19:19 - General 1 Samuel 22:9 - Doeg 1 Samuel 24:1 - it was told 1 Samuel 24:9 - General 2 Samuel 11:16 - he assigned 2 Samuel 13:29 - servants 2 Kings 1:11 - O man 2 Kings 21:9 - seduced 2 Chronicles 24:17 - Then the king 2 Chronicles 33:9 - made Judah Nehemiah 5:15 - even their Psalms 12:8 - wicked Psalms 101:7 - He that worketh Proverbs 14:35 - king's Proverbs 17:7 - much Jeremiah 26:22 - men Jeremiah 37:2 - neither Daniel 3:2 - sent Zephaniah 1:9 - which
Cross-References
Abram said to Lot, "Let's not have fighting between us, between your shepherds and my shepherds. After all, we're family. Look around. Isn't there plenty of land out there? Let's separate. If you go left, I'll go right; if you go right, I'll go left."
And the girl was off and running, telling everyone in her mother's house what had happened.
Laban said, "You're family! My flesh and blood!" When Jacob had been with him for a month, Laban said, "Just because you're my nephew, you shouldn't work for me for nothing. Tell me what you want to be paid. What's a fair wage?"
Now Laban had two daughters; Leah was the older and Rachel the younger. Leah had nice eyes, but Rachel was stunningly beautiful. And it was Rachel that Jacob loved. So Jacob answered, "I will work for you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
If a ruler hearken to lies,.... To men that tell them in order to soothe and flatter him, or to hurt the character and reputation of others, that they may raise their own: rulers should not listen to and encourage such sort of persons; for, as lying lips do not become a prince, so it is not right to have liars about him; David would not suffer such to dwell in his court, Psalms 101:7;
all his servants [are] wicked; or the greatest part of them: for a ruler of such a disposition will take none but such into his service, that flatter him, and calumniate others; and such a conduct, being pleasing and agreeable to him, is a temptation to his ministers to act the same wicked part; as is a prince, such are his courtiers; his example has a great influence upon them.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
All his servants are wicked - They know what will please, and they become informers and backbiters.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 29:12. If a ruler hearken to lies — Wherever the system of espionage is permitted to prevail, there the system of falsity is established; for he who is capable of being a spy and informer, is not only capable of telling and swearing lies, but also of cutting his king's or even his father's throat. I have seen cases, where the same spy received pay from both parties, and deceived both.
