Proverbs 28:16

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

A leader lacking understanding multiplieth oppressions, Whoso is hating dishonest gain prolongeth days.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 3:12 : 12 My people -- its exactors `are' sucklings, And women have ruled over it. My people -- thy eulogists are causing to err, And the way of thy paths swallowed up.
  • Isa 33:15-16 : 15 Whoso is walking righteously, And is speaking uprightly, Kicking against gain of oppressions, Shaking his hands from taking hold on a bribe, Stopping his ear from hearing of blood, And shutting his eyes from looking on evil, 16 He high places doth inhabit, Strongholds of rock `are' his high tower, His bread hath been given, his waters stedfast.
  • Jer 22:15-17 : 15 Dost thou reign, because thou art fretting thyself in cedar? Thy father -- did he not eat and drink? Yea, he did judgment and righteousness, Then `it is' well with him. 16 He decided the cause of the poor and needy, Then `it is' well -- is it not to know Me? An affirmation of Jehovah. 17 But thine eyes and thy heart are not, Except on thy dishonest gain, And on shedding of innocent blood, And on oppression, and on doing of violence.
  • Amos 4:1 : 1 Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, Who `are' in the mountain of Samaria, Who are oppressing the poor, Who are bruising the needy, Who are saying to their lords: `Bring in, and we do drink.'
  • Exod 18:21 : 21 `And thou -- thou dost provide out of all the people men of ability, fearing God, men of truth, hating dishonest gain, and hast placed `these' over them, heads of thousands, heads of hundreds, heads of fifties, and heads of tens,
  • 1 Kgs 12:10 : 10 And they speak unto him -- the lads who had grown up with him -- saying, `Thus dost thou say to this people who have spoken unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, and thou, make `it' light upon us; thus dost thou speak unto them, My little `finger' is thicker than the loins of my father;
  • 1 Kgs 12:14 : 14 and speaketh unto them, according to the counsel of the lads, saying, `My father made your yoke heavy, and I add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, and I -- I chastise you with scorpions;'
  • Neh 5:15 : 15 the former governors who `are' before me have made themselves heavy on the people, and take of them in bread and wine, besides in silver forty shekels; also, their servants have ruled over the people -- and I have not done so, because of the fear of God.
  • Eccl 4:1 : 1 And I have turned, and I see all the oppressions that are done under the sun, and lo, the tear of the oppressed, and they have no comforter; and at the hand of their oppressors `is' power, and they have no comforter.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 28:15
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    15A growling lion, and a ranging bear, `Is' the wicked ruler over a poor people.

  • Prov 28:2-3
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    2By the transgression of a land many `are' its heads. And by an intelligent man, Who knoweth right -- it is prolonged.

    3A man -- poor and oppressing the weak, `Is' a sweeping rain, and there is no bread.

  • Prov 22:16
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    16He is oppressing the poor to multiply to him, He is giving to the rich -- only to want.

  • Prov 21:26
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    26All the day desiring he hath desired, And the righteous giveth and withholdeth not.

  • Prov 14:28-29
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    28In the multitude of a people `is' the honour of a king, And in lack of people the ruin of a prince.

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  • Prov 28:17
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    17A man oppressed with the blood of a soul, Unto the pit fleeth, none taketh hold on him.

  • Prov 15:27
    73%

    27A dishonest gainer is troubling his house, And whoso is hating gifts liveth.

  • Prov 28:11
    73%

    11A rich man is wise in his own eyes, And the intelligent poor searcheth him.

  • Prov 28:8
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    8Whoso is multiplying his wealth by biting and usury, For one favouring the poor doth gather it.

  • Eccl 7:7
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    7Surely oppression maketh the wise mad, And a gift destroyeth the heart.

  • Prov 14:17-18
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    72%

    17Whoso is short of temper doth folly, And a man of wicked devices is hated.

    18The simple have inherited folly, And the prudent are crowned `with' knowledge.

  • Prov 14:31
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    31An oppressor of the poor reproacheth his Maker, And whoso is honouring Him Is favouring the needy.

  • Eccl 10:5
    72%

    5There is an evil I have seen under the sun, As an error that goeth out from the ruler,

  • Prov 28:22
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    22Troubled for wealth `is' the man `with' an evil eye, And he knoweth not that want doth meet him.

  • Job 15:20
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    20`All days of the wicked he is paining himself, And few years have been laid up for the terrible one.

  • Prov 29:1-2
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    71%

    1A man often reproved, hardening the neck, Is suddenly broken, and there is no healing.

    2In the multiplying of the righteous the people rejoice, And in the ruling of the wicked the people sigh.

  • Prov 28:5-6
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    71%

    5Evil men understand not judgment, And those seeking Jehovah understand all.

    6Better `is' the poor walking in his integrity, Than the perverse of ways who is rich.

  • Hab 2:9
    71%

    9Wo `to' him who is gaining evil gain for his house, To set on high his nest, To be delivered from the hand of evil,

  • Prov 1:19
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    19So `are' the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh.

  • Isa 33:15
    71%

    15Whoso is walking righteously, And is speaking uprightly, Kicking against gain of oppressions, Shaking his hands from taking hold on a bribe, Stopping his ear from hearing of blood, And shutting his eyes from looking on evil,

  • Mic 7:3
    71%

    3On the evil `are' both hands to do `it' well, The prince is asking -- also the judge -- for recompence, And the great -- he is speaking the mischief of his soul, And they wrap it up.

  • Prov 17:7
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    7Not comely for a fool is a lip of excellency, Much less for a noble a lip of falsehood.

  • Prov 3:31
    70%

    31Be not envious of a man of violence, Nor fix thou on any of his ways.

  • Job 34:17
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    17Yea, doth one hating justice govern? Or the Most Just dost thou condemn?

  • Eccl 10:16
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    16Wo to thee, O land, when thy king `is' a youth, And thy princes do eat in the morning.

  • Prov 28:27
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    27Whoso is giving to the poor hath no lack, And whoso is hiding his eyes multiplied curses.

  • Prov 19:10
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    10Luxury is not comely for a fool, Much less for a servant to rule among princes.

  • Prov 17:19
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    19Whoso is loving transgression is loving debate, Whoso is making high his entrance is seeking destruction.

  • Prov 17:26-27
    2 verses
    70%

    26Also, to fine the righteous is not good, To smite nobles for uprightness.

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  • Hab 2:6
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    6Do not these -- all of them -- against him a simile taken up, And a moral of acute sayings for him, And say, Wo `to' him who is multiplying `what is' not his? Till when also is he multiplying to himself heavy pledges?

  • Prov 28:20
    70%

    20A stedfast man hath multiplied blessings, And whoso is hasting to be rich is not acquitted.

  • Prov 29:22
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    22An angry man stirreth up contention, And a furious man is multiplying transgression.

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    14The fury of a king `is' messengers of death, And a wise man pacifieth it.

  • Prov 20:2
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    2The fear of a king `is' a growl as of a young lion, He who is causing him to be wroth is wronging his soul.

  • Eccl 5:8
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    8If oppression of the poor, and violent taking away of judgment and righteousness thou seest in a province, do not marvel at the matter, for a higher than the high is observing, and high ones `are' over them.

  • Prov 11:12
    70%

    12Whoso is despising his neighbour lacketh heart, And a man of understanding keepeth silence.

  • Isa 3:5
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    5And the people hath exacted -- man upon man, Even a man on his neighbour, Enlarge themselves do the youths against the aged, And the lightly esteemed against the honoured.

  • Prov 27:12
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    12The prudent hath seen the evil, he is hidden, The simple have passed on, they are punished.

  • Hos 12:7
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    7Canaan! in his hand `are' balances of deceit! To oppress he hath loved.

  • Prov 28:25
    69%

    25Whoso is proud in soul stirreth up contention, And whoso is trusting on Jehovah is made fat.

  • Prov 22:12
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    12The eyes of Jehovah have kept knowledge, And He overthroweth the words of the treacherous.

  • Jer 22:17
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    17But thine eyes and thy heart are not, Except on thy dishonest gain, And on shedding of innocent blood, And on oppression, and on doing of violence.

  • Prov 13:15
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    15Good understanding giveth grace, And the way of the treacherous `is' hard.

  • Prov 22:7
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    7The rich over the poor ruleth, And a servant `is' the borrower to the lender.