Proverbs 25:2

More Proverbs Of Solomon

¹ These are more wise sayings of Solomon, copied out by the men of Hezekiah, king of Judah. ² It is the glory of God to keep a thing secret: but the glory of kings is to have it searched out. ³ The heaven is high and the earth is deep, and the hearts of kings may not be searched out.

Conceal a Matter

Glory of God

Deuteronomy 29:29

The secret things are the Lord our God's: but the things which have been made clear are ours and our children's for ever, so that we may do all the words of this law.

Job 29:16

I was a father to the poor, searching out the cause of him who was strange to me.

1 Kings 3:9-28

Give your servant, then, a wise heart for judging your people, able to see what is good and what evil; for who is able to be the judge of this great people?

1 Kings 4:29-34

And God gave Solomon a great store of wisdom and good sense, and a mind of wide range, as wide as the sand by the seaside.

Ezra 4:15

So that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers: and you will see in the book of the records that this town has been uncontrolled, and a cause of trouble to kings and countries, and that there were outbursts against authority there in the past: for which reason the town was made waste.

Ezra 4:19

And I gave orders for a search to be made, and it is certain that in the past this town has made trouble for kings, and that outbursts against authority have taken place there.

Ezra 5:17-1

So now, if it seems good to the king, let search be made in the king's store-house at Babylon, to see if it is true that an order was given by Cyrus the king for the building of this house of God at Jerusalem, and let the king send us word of his pleasure in connection with this business.

Job 11:7-8

Are you able to take God's measure, to make discovery of the limits of the Ruler of all?

Job 38:4-30

Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge.

Job 40:2

Will he who is protesting give teaching to the Ruler of all? Let him who has arguments to put forward against God give an answer.

Job 42:3

Who is this who makes dark the purpose of God by words without knowledge? For I have been talking without knowledge about wonders not to be searched out.

Romans 11:33-34

O how deep is the wealth of the wisdom and knowledge of God! no one is able to make discovery of his decisions, and his ways may not be searched out.