Proverbs 16:13 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right. ”

Proverbs 16:13 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 16. The special feature is a group of aphorisms ( Proverbs 16:10-15 ) relating to kings. The sentiments seem rather to reflect the picture of the ideal king than to indicate any particular...
Proverbs 16:13 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

kings. Some codices, with Septuagint, Aramaean, and Syriac, read "a king". they love, &c, or, kings love the words of uprightness.
Proverbs 16:13 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right.
Proverbs 16:13 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right. Righteous lips (are) the delight of kings. Good kings delight in those who speak only what is "righteous." This...
Proverbs 16:13 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1-9. God's control of human life.
Proverbs 16:13 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER 17 A JUST BALANCE "A just balance and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are His work."- Proverbs 16:11 "A false balance is an abomination to the Lord: but a just weight...
Proverbs 16:13 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Verse Proverbs 16:1 . A somewhat obscure proverb which recognizes that man has to exercise his own reason in making his plans, but that he is dependent on the Lord for the answer of the tongue. Dr....
Proverbs 16:13 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right. A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps. A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth tran...
Proverbs 16:13 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Righteous lips [are] the delight of kings ,.... Such that speak truth and righteousness, and advise to the administration of justice and judgment, and to do that which is most for their own true hon...
Proverbs 16:13 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Righteous lips [are] the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right. Ver. 13. Righteous lips are the delight of kings, ] i.e., Of good kings, such as David was, who loved Nathan...
Proverbs 16:13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Righteous lips are the delight of kings All wise and good kings do, and all kings should, delight in employing such counsellors, judges, and officers, under them, as are just and faithful in their...
Proverbs 16:13 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

13 Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right. Here is a further character of good kings, that they love and delight in those that speak ri...
Proverbs 16:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

All wise and good kings do, and all kings should, delight in employing such counsellors, judges, and officers under them, as are just and faithful in their counsels, and sentences, and actions, becau...
Proverbs 16:13 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Responsibility And Authority Of A King ( Proverbs 16:12-15 ). It is no coincidence that this subsection with its fourfold mention of the king comes after a series of subsections in which YHWH...
Proverbs 16:13 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 16:10 . A Divine sentence , literally “divination,” i.e., “an oracle ” or “ a decision .” “His mouth transgresseth not.” Stuart and Delitzsch read, “ In judgment his m...
Proverbs 16:13 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 16:1 . The preparations of the heart in man. As the field must be plowed, and the soil prepared for the seeds, so the heart of man must be prepared for grace. Afflictions in Egypt dispose...
Proverbs 16:13 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Proverbs 16:1-20 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...
Proverbs 16:13 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

v. 13. Righteous lips are the delight of kings, true sovereigns are pleased to have men among their counselors who will frankly state the truth in righteousness; and they love him that speaketh ri...
Proverbs 16:13 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 14:35 ; Proverbs 22:11 ; Psalms 101:5-7

Proverbs 16:13 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 16:13 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Proverbs 16:13 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Proverbs 16:13 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 16:13 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 16:13 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Proverbs 16:13 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 16:13 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Proverbs 16:13 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Proverbs 16:13 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Proverbs 16:13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 16:13 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Proverbs 16:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Proverbs 16:13 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 16:13 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Proverbs 16:13 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 16:13 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Proverbs 16:13 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Proverbs 16:13 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge