Proverbs 28:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

The prince who lacks understanding is also a great oppressor, but he who hates covetousness shall prolong his days.

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  • Isa 3:12 : 12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.
  • Isa 33:15-16 : 15 He who walks righteously, and speaks uprightly; he who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands from holding bribes, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil; 16 He will dwell on high; his place of defense will be the fortress of rocks; bread will be given to him; his water will be sure.
  • Jer 22:15-17 : 15 Shall you reign, because you enclose yourself in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him? 16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? says the LORD. 17 But your eyes and your heart are set only on your covetousness, and on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression, and on violence, to do it.
  • Amos 4:1 : 1 Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their masters, 'Bring, and let us drink.'
  • Exod 18:21 : 21 Moreover, you shall select from all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place them over them to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
  • 1 Kgs 12:10 : 10 And the young men that had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, Thus shall you speak to this people who spoke to you, saying, Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter for us; thus shall you say to them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father's waist.
  • 1 Kgs 12:14 : 14 and spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke; my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
  • Neh 5:15 : 15 But the former governors who were before me laid burdens on the people and took bread and wine from them, besides forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants ruled over the people. But I did not do so, because of the fear of God.
  • Eccl 4:1 : 1 So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power, but they had no comforter.

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    2For the transgression of a land, many are its princes; but by a person of understanding and knowledge, its state will be prolonged.

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  • Prov 22:16
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    16He who oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he who gives to the rich, shall surely come to want.

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    26He covets greedily all day long, but the righteous gives and does not hold back.

  • Prov 14:28-29
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    28In the multitude of people is the king's honor, but in the lack of people is the ruin of the prince.

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    17A person who does violence to the blood of anyone shall flee to the pit; let no one stop him.

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  • Eccl 7:7
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    7Surely oppression makes a wise man mad, and a bribe destroys the heart.

  • Prov 14:17-18
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    31He who oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker, but he who honors Him has mercy on the poor.

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

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    22He who hastens to be rich has an evil eye and does not consider that poverty shall come upon him.

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    20The wicked man writhes in pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden from the oppressor.

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    9Woe to him who covets an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!

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    15He who walks righteously, and speaks uprightly; he who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands from holding bribes, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil;

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    31Do not envy the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.

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    12The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and He overthrows the words of the transgressor.

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