Proverbs 29:12 “If a ruler listens to lies, all his officials will be wicked.”

Proverbs 29:12

If a ruler listens to lies, all his officials will be wicked.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

If a ruler listens to lies, all of his officials are wicked.

American Standard Version

If a ruler hearkeneth to falsehood, All his servants are wicked.

Geneva Bible 1599

Of a prince that hearkeneth to lyes, all his seruants are wicked.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

A ruler who is attending to lying words, All his ministers [are] wicked.

Bible in Basic English

If a ruler gives attention to false words, all his servants are evil-doers.

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Cross references

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

Proverbs 20:8 1 Samuel 22:8–23 Psalm 52:2–4 Psalm 101:5–7 1 Samuel 23:19–23 2 Samuel 3:7–11

Proverbs 20:8 · BSB

A king who sits on a throne to judge sifts out all evil with his eyes.

1 Samuel 22:8–23 · BSB

Is that why all of you have conspired against me? Not one of you told me that my own son had made a covenant with the son of Jesse. Not one of you has shown concern for me or revealed to me that my son has stirred up my…

Psalm 52:2–4 · BSB

Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.

Psalm 101:5–7 · BSB

Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not endure.

1 Samuel 23:19–23 · BSB

Then the Ziphites came up to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah south of Jeshimon?

2 Samuel 3:7–11 · BSB

Now Saul had a concubine named Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah. So Ish-bosheth questioned Abner, “Why did you sleep with my father’s concubine?”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

11A fool vents all his anger, but a wise man holds it back.

13The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: The LORD gives light to the eyes of both.

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