Proverbs 29:12

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

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

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

A prince that gladly heareth lying words, hath all his servants wicked.

GNV

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

JPS

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

LXXE

When a king hearkens to unjust language, all his subjects are transgressors.

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Original-language editions

WLC

מֹ֭שֵׁל מַקְשִׁ֣יב עַל־דְּבַר־שָׁ֑קֶר כָּֽל־מְשָׁרְתָ֥יו רְשָׁעִֽים׃

LXX-Br

Βασιλέως ὑπακούοντος λόγον ἄδικον, πάντες οἱ ὑπʼ αὐτὸν παράνομοι.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Proverbs 20:8A king who sits on a throne to judge sifts out all evil with his eyes.
• Psalms 52:2–4Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit. You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue.
• 1 Samuel 22:8–23Is 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…
• 2 Kings 10:6–7Then Jehu wrote them a second letter and said: “If you are on my side, and if you will obey me, then bring the heads of your master’s sons to me at Jezreel by this time tomorrow.” Now the sons of the king, seventy in…
• Psalms 101:5–7Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not endure. My eyes favor the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me; he who walks in the…
• 2 Samuel 3:7–11Meanwhile, Saul had a concubine named Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah. So Ish-bosheth questioned Abner, “Why did you sleep with my father’s concubine?” Abner was furious over Ish-bosheth’s accusation. “Am I the head of a…
• 1 Samuel 23:19–23Then 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? Now, O king, come down whenever your soul desires, and we…
• 1 Kings 21:11–13So the elders and nobles who lived in Naboth’s city did as Jezebel had instructed in the letters she had written to them. They proclaimed a fast and gave Naboth a seat of honor among the people. And the two scoundrels…
• 2 Samuel 4:5–12Now Rechab and Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, set out and arrived at the house of Ish-bosheth in the heat of the day, while the king was taking his midday nap. They entered the interior of the house as if…
• Proverbs 25:23As the north wind brings forth rain, so a backbiting tongue brings angry looks.

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