Proverbs 25:2

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Summary

Proverbs 25:2

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.

The glory

The honour

Bible References

The glory

The secrets pertain unto the LORD our God and the things that are opened pertain unto us and our children forever, that we do all the words of this law.

"Wilt thou find out God with thy seeking? Wilt thou attain to the perfectness of the Almighty?

"Where wast thou, when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell plainly if thou hast understanding.

"Can he that striveth with the Almighty be at rest? Should not he which disputeth with God, give him an answer?"

For who can keep his own counsel so secret, but it shall be known? Therefore have I spoken unwisely, seeing these things are so high, and pass mine understanding.

O the deepness of the abundant wisdom and knowledge of God: how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out.

The honour

Give therefore unto thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, and to discern between good, and bad. For who is able to judge this, thy so weighty a people?"

And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much and a large heart, even as the sand along by the sea bank:

That it may be sought in the Chronicles of thy progenitors, and so shalt thou find in the same Chronicles, and perceive, that this city is seditious and noisome unto kings and lands, and that they cause others also to rebel of the old, and for the same cause was this city destroyed.

If it please the king now, let there be search made in the king's treasure house, which is at Babylon, whether it have been king Cyrus' commandment, that the house of God at Jerusalem should be builded: and send us the king's mind concerning the same."

Then commanded king Darius, that search should be made in the library of the king's treasure house which lay at Babylon.

I was a father unto the poor, and when I knew not their cause, I sought it out diligently.