Proverbs 16:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

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.

Proverbs 16:10

10 A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresseth not in judgment.