Proverbs 16:10
Divination is in the lips of the king, his mouth shall not err in judgment.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Divinatio in labiis regis ; in judicio non errabit os ejus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- μαντεῖον ἐπὶ χείλεσιν βασιλέως, ἐν δὲ κρίσει οὐ μὴ πλανηθῇ τὸ στόμα αὐτοῦ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- קֶ֤סֶם עַֽל שִׂפְתֵי מֶ֑לֶךְ בְּ֝מִשְׁפָּ֗ט לֹ֣א יִמְעַל פִּֽיו
Haydock's commentary
Judgment. Or "let it not err," as people look upon the decisions of kings as so many oracles. We ought to act in this manner, as long as they are not visibly unjust. God gave a principal spirit (Psalm l. 14.) to Saul, David, Solomon, and to the judges whom he appointed, 1 Kings x. 9., Deuteronomy xxxiv. 9., and Judges iii. 10. (Calmet)
Solomon was thus enabled to decide difficult cases. (Menochius) (Job xxix. 7.)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.