Proverbs 16:10

A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresseth not in judgment. A DIVINE SENTENCE (IS) IN THE LIPS OF THE KING. What a just and wise king (one worthy by of the high name and office) saith in pronouncing judgment, is sound and veracious, like a divinely oracular sentence. God gives him a kind of heaven-taught sagacity, (see an example, , etc.) This ought to be the aim of a king, to be just, true, and firm in judgment, as it he were speaking oracularly....

Verse Proverbs 16:10. _A DIVINE SENTENCE_] קסם _kesem_, "divination," as the margin has it. Is the meaning as follows? Though _divination_ were applied to a righteous king's lips, to induce him to punish the innocent and spare the guilty, yet _would not his lips transgress_ _in judgment_; so firmly attached is he to God, and so much is he under the Divine _care_ and _influence_. Whatever judgment such a one pronounces, it may be considered as a decision from God....

A DIVINE SENTENCE - See the margin, i. e., “soothsaying” in its darker aspect as contrasted with prophecy. The true oracle is to be sought, not from soothsayers and diviners, but “at the lips of the king,” who is ideally the representative, the προφήτης _prophētēs_ of Yahweh, in His government of mankind....

EXPOSITION PROVERBS 16:1 These are specially religions maxims, and they all contain the name Jehovah. PROVERBS 16:1 The Authorized Version makes one sentence of this verse without any contrast or antithesis. This is plainly wrong, there being intended a contrast between the thought of the heart and the well ordered speech. It is better translated, _The plans of the heart are man_'_s_:_ but the answer of the tongue is from Jehovah. _Men make plans, arrange speeches, muster arguments, in the mind; but to put these into proper, persuasive words is a gift of God. "Our sufficiency is of God" (2 Corinthians 3:5). In the case of

A DIVINE SENTENCE [IS] IN THE LIPS OF THE KING,.... Or "divination" f, as the word signifies; or what is like to divination, as Aben Ezra and Gersom interpret it g. What be says is as an oracle, and should be strictly true. Some understand it of the sagacity and penetration of kings, as was in Solomon, and appeared in his judging the two harlots; but such is not to be found in kings in common: rather therefore this expresses and designs what should be, and not what is, in kings. These, as the kings of Israel, ought to have the book of God before them, and read in it, and judge and pronounce sentence in every case according to it; they should speak as the oracles of God; and, when they do, a divine sentence may be said to be in their lips. But it is best to understand this of the King of kings, of the King Messiah; into whose lips grace is poured, and from whence none but words of wisdom,...

CHAPTER 16 IN THE LIGHT OF THE LORD The name Jehovah (LORD) appears eleven times in this chapter of Proverbs. The Lord has the final word, for to man belong the preparations (or plans) of the heart; but from the LORD is the answer of the tongue. It is the same thought as in our English proverb--“Man proposes--God disposes.” Man loves to justify himself, his ways are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits; He is the judge of ways and motives. Our works are to be committed (literal: rolled upon) unto the LORD, then establishment and blessing will follow. It is strange that these three verses were omitted in the Septuagint version of the Old Testament. The LORD hath made all things for Himself, yea, even the wicked for the day of evil Proverbs 16:4. Much error has been taught in connection with this verse. Some have taught that God made some wicked. It is not said

PROVERBS 16. The special feature is a group of aphorisms (Proverbs 16:10) relating to kings. The sentiments seem rather to reflect the picture of the ideal king than to indicate any particular period. The metaphors employed and the character depicted suggest a parallel with the ideal king of Psalms 72. PROVERBS 16:4. The lit. rendering of Proverbs 16:4 a is Yahweh has made every work for its answer_ i.e._ the nexus of cause and effect seen in the moral government of the world is His work, a kind of prearranged harmony. The supreme instance is the case of the wicked, their answer is the day of evil. We have an assertion of the righteousness of Yahweh's government rather than of their predestinati

A DIVINE SENTENCE. an oracle. LIPS. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6, for what is uttered by them. TRANSGRESSETH NOT: or, will not be unfaithful....

_A divine sentence_ Lit. DIVINATION, A.V. and R.V. marg. The word is generally used in a bad sense, "soothsaying." See Deuteronomy 18:10, where it is positively forbidden, and 1 Samuel 15:23, where it is called a "sin." Here, however, it has a good meaning: the true king in judgement, like the true prophet in preaching, "speaks as oracles of God" (1 Peter 4:11. See 1 Kings 3:28)....

A DIVINE SENTENCE IS IN THE LIPS OF THE KING— These words, according to Melancthon, affirm the whole political order, magistrates, laws, distinction of dominions, contracts, judgments, punishments, to be things ordained by the wisdom of God among men; and since we know political order to be the work of God, we ought to love it, and study to defend it; modestly for God's sake to obey it; give thanks to God who preserves it, and look upon those who would disturb this order as most hateful in the sight of God. See Romans 13....