Proverbs 28:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The prince who has no sense is a cruel ruler; but he who has no desire to get profit for himself will have long life.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 3:12 : 12 As for my people, their ruler is acting like a child, and those who have authority over them are women. O my people, your guides are the cause of your wandering, turning your footsteps out of the right way.
  • Isa 33:15-16 : 15 He whose ways are true, and whose words are upright; he who gives no thought to the profits of false acts, whose hands have not taken rewards, who will have no part in putting men to death, and whose eyes are shut against evil; 16 He will have a place on high: he will be safely shut in by the high rocks: his bread will be given to him; his waters will be certain.
  • Jer 22:15-17 : 15 Are you to be a king because you make more use of cedar than your father? did not your father take food and drink and do right, judging in righteousness, and then it was well for him? 16 He was judge in the cause of the poor and those in need; then it was well. Was not this to have knowledge of me? says the Lord. 17 But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.
  • Amos 4:1 : 1 Give ear to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are in the hill of Samaria, by whom the poor are kept down, and those in need are crushed; who say to their lords, Get out the wine and give us drink.
  • Exod 18:21 : 21 But for the rest, take from among the people able men, such as have the fear of God, true men hating profits wrongly made; and put such men over them, to be captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens;
  • 1 Kgs 12:10 : 10 And the young men of his generation said to him, This is the answer to give to the people who came to you saying, Your father put a hard yoke on us; will you make it less? say to them, My little finger is thicker than my father's body;
  • 1 Kgs 12:14 : 14 But giving them the answer put forward by the young men, saying, My father made your yoke hard, but I will make it harder; my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give it with snakes.
  • Neh 5:15 : 15 But earlier rulers who were before me made the people responsible for their upkeep, and took from them bread and wine at the rate of forty shekels of silver; and even their servants were lords over the people: but I did not do so, because of the fear of God.
  • Eccl 4:1 : 1 And again I saw all the cruel things which are done under the sun; there was the weeping of those who have evil done to them, and they had no comforter: and from the hands of the evil-doers there went out power, but they had no comforter.

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  • Prov 28:2-3
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    2 Because of the sin of the land, its troubles are increased; but by a man of wisdom and knowledge they will be put out like a fire.

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    16 He who is cruel to the poor for the purpose of increasing his profit, and he who gives to the man of wealth, will only come to be in need.

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    26 All the day the sinner goes after his desire: but the upright man gives freely, keeping nothing back.

  • Prov 14:28-29
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    28 A king's glory is in the number of his people: and for need of people a ruler may come to destruction.

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    17 One who has been the cause of a man's death will go in flight to the underworld: let no man give him help.

  • Prov 15:27
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    27 He whose desires are fixed on profit is a cause of trouble to his family; but he who has no desire for offerings will have life.

  • Prov 28:11
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    11 The man of wealth seems to himself to be wise, but the poor man who has sense has a low opinion of him.

  • Prov 28:8
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    8 He who makes his wealth greater by taking interest, only gets it together for him who has pity on the poor.

  • Eccl 7:7
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    7 The wise are troubled by the ways of the cruel, and the giving of money is the destruction of the heart.

  • Prov 14:17-18
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    17 He who is quickly angry will do what is foolish, but the man of good sense will have quiet.

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  • Prov 14:31
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    31 He who is hard on the poor puts shame on his Maker; but he who has mercy on those who are in need gives him honour.

  • Eccl 10:5
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    5 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, like an error which comes by chance from a ruler:

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    22 He who is ever desiring wealth goes running after money, and does not see that need will come on him.

  • Job 15:20
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    20 The evil man is in pain all his days, and the number of the years stored up for the cruel is small.

  • Prov 29:1-2
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    1 A man hating sharp words and making his heart hard, will suddenly be broken and will not be made well again.

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  • Prov 28:5-6
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    5 Evil men have no knowledge of what is right; but those who go after the Lord have knowledge of all things.

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  • Hab 2:9
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    9 A curse on him who gets evil profits for his family, so that he may put his resting-place on high and be safe from the hand of the wrongdoer!

  • Prov 1:19
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    19 Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners.

  • Isa 33:15
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    15 He whose ways are true, and whose words are upright; he who gives no thought to the profits of false acts, whose hands have not taken rewards, who will have no part in putting men to death, and whose eyes are shut against evil;

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    16 Unhappy is the land whose king is a boy, and whose rulers are feasting in the morning.

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