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Passage Lookup: Proverbs 14:28; Proverbs 14:35; Proverbs 16:10; Proverbs 16:13-15; Proverbs 19:12; Proverbs 20:2; Proverbs 20:8; Proverbs 20:26; Proverbs 20:28; Proverbs 21:1; Proverbs 22:11; Proverbs 22:29; Proverbs 24:21-22; Proverbs 25:2-3; Proverbs 25:4-5; Proverbs 25:6-7; Proverbs 29:4; Proverbs 29:14; Proverbs 31:4-7

N84New International Version (1984)
NIVNew International Version
Proverbs 14:28
- Variant Count: None
A large population is a king's glory, but without subjects a prince is ruined.
Proverbs 14:28
- Variant Count: 1 (6%)
A large population is a king's glory, but without subjects a prince is ruined.
Proverbs 14:35
- Variant Count: 2
A king delights in a wise servant, but a shameful servant incurs his wrath.
Proverbs 14:35
- Variant Count: 3 (20%)
A king delights in a wise servant, but a shameful servant arouses his fury.
Proverbs 16:10
- Variant Count: 1
The lips of a king speak as an oracle, and his mouth should not betray justice.
Proverbs 16:10
- Variant Count: 2 (11%)
The lips of a king speak as an oracle, and his mouth does not betray justice.
Proverbs 16:13
- Variant Count: 3
Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value a man who speaks the truth.
Proverbs 16:13
- Variant Count: 5 (31%)
Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value the one who speaks what is right.
Proverbs 16:14
- Variant Count: 1
A king's wrath is a messenger of death, but a wise man will appease it.
Proverbs 16:14
- Variant Count: 2 (13%)
A king's wrath is a messenger of death, but the wise will appease it.
Proverbs 16:15
- Variant Count: None
When a king's face brightens, it means life; his favor is like a rain cloud in spring.
Proverbs 16:15
- Variant Count: 1 (5%)
When a king's face brightens, it means life; his favor is like a rain cloud in spring.
Proverbs 19:12
- Variant Count: None
A king's rage is like the roar of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.
Proverbs 19:12
- Variant Count: 1 (5%)
A king's rage is like the roar of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.
Proverbs 20:2
- Variant Count: 6
A king's wrath is like the roar of a lion; he who angers him forfeits his life.
Proverbs 20:2
- Variant Count: 8 (42%)
A king's wrath strikes terror like the roar of a lion; those who anger him forfeit their lives.
Proverbs 20:8
- Variant Count: None
When a king sits on his throne to judge, he winnows out all evil with his eyes.
Proverbs 20:8
- Variant Count: 1 (5%)
When a king sits on his throne to judge, he winnows out all evil with his eyes.
Proverbs 20:26
- Variant Count: None
A wise king winnows out the wicked; he drives the threshing wheel over them.
Proverbs 20:26
- Variant Count: 1 (6%)
A wise king winnows out the wicked; he drives the threshing wheel over them.
Proverbs 20:28
- Variant Count: None
Love and faithfulness keep a king safe; through love his throne is made secure.
Proverbs 20:28
- Variant Count: 1 (6%)
Love and faithfulness keep a king safe; through love his throne is made secure.
Proverbs 21:1
- Variant Count: 6
The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD; he directs it like a watercourse wherever he pleases.
Proverbs 21:1
- Variant Count: 10 (45%)
In the Lord 's hand the king's heart is a stream of water that he channels toward all who please him.
Proverbs 22:11
- Variant Count: 6
He who loves a pure heart and whose speech is gracious will have the king for his friend.
Proverbs 22:11
- Variant Count: 5 (26%)
One who loves a pure heart and who speaks with grace will have the king for a friend.
Proverbs 22:29
- Variant Count: 7
Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve before kings; he will not serve before obscure men.
Proverbs 22:29
- Variant Count: 13 (48%)

Saying 6

Do you see someone skilled in their work? They will serve before kings; they will not serve before officials of low rank.
Proverbs 24:21
- Variant Count: None
Fear the LORD and the king, my son, and do not join with the rebellious,
Proverbs 24:21
- Variant Count: 6 (30%)

Saying 30

Fear the Lord and the king, my son, and do not join with rebellious officials,
Proverbs 24:22
- Variant Count: 6
for those two will send sudden destruction upon them, and who knows what calamities they can bring? Further Sayings of the Wise
Proverbs 24:22
- Variant Count: 2 (11%)
for those two will send sudden destruction on them, and who knows what calamities they can bring?
Proverbs 25:2
- Variant Count: None
It is the glory of God to conceal a matter; to search out a matter is the glory of kings.
Proverbs 25:2
- Variant Count: 1 (4%)
It is the glory of God to conceal a matter; to search out a matter is the glory of kings.
Proverbs 25:3
- Variant Count: None
As the heavens are high and the earth is deep, so the hearts of kings are unsearchable.
Proverbs 25:3
- Variant Count: 1 (5%)
As the heavens are high and the earth is deep, so the hearts of kings are unsearchable.
Proverbs 25:4
- Variant Count: 4
Remove the dross from the silver, and out comes material for the silversmith;
Proverbs 25:4
- Variant Count: 6 (42%)
Remove the dross from the silver, and a silversmith can produce a vessel;
Proverbs 25:5
- Variant Count: None
remove the wicked from the king's presence, and his throne will be established through righteousness.
Proverbs 25:5
- Variant Count: 2 (12%)
remove wicked officials from the king's presence, and his throne will be established through righteousness.
Proverbs 25:6
- Variant Count: None
Do not exalt yourself in the king's presence, and do not claim a place among great men;
Proverbs 25:6
- Variant Count: 2 (10%)
Do not exalt yourself in the king's presence, and do not claim a place among his great men;
Proverbs 25:7
- Variant Count: 4
it is better for him to say to you, "Come up here," than for him to humiliate you before a nobleman. What you have seen with your eyes
Proverbs 25:7
- Variant Count: 5 (17%)
it is better for him to say to you, "Come up here," than for him to humiliate you before his nobles. What you have seen with your eyes
Proverbs 29:4
- Variant Count: 3
By justice a king gives a country stability, but one who is greedy for bribes tears it down.
Proverbs 29:4
- Variant Count: 4 (21%)
By justice a king gives a country stability, but those who are greedy for bribes tear it down.
Proverbs 29:14
- Variant Count: 2
If a king judges the poor with fairness, his throne will always be secure.
Proverbs 29:14
- Variant Count: 3 (20%)
If a king judges the poor with fairness, his throne will be established forever.
Proverbs 31:4
- Variant Count: 3
"It is not for kings, O Lemuel- not for kings to drink wine, not for rulers to crave beer,
Proverbs 31:4
- Variant Count: 4 (19%)
It is not for kings, Lemuel— it is not for kings to drink wine, not for rulers to crave beer,
Proverbs 31:5
- Variant Count: 2
lest they drink and forget what the law decrees, and deprive all the oppressed of their rights.
Proverbs 31:5
- Variant Count: 4 (22%)
lest they drink and forget what has been decreed, and deprive all the oppressed of their rights.
Proverbs 31:6
- Variant Count: 3
Give beer to those who are perishing, wine to those who are in anguish;
Proverbs 31:6
- Variant Count: 5 (31%)
Let beer be for those who are perishing, wine for those who are in anguish!
Proverbs 31:7
- Variant Count: None
let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more.
Proverbs 31:7
- Variant Count: 1 (7%)
Let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more.
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