Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version If a ruler listens to lies, all his officials become wicked. New Living Translation If a ruler pays attention to liars, all his advisers will be wicked. English Standard Version If a ruler listens to falsehood, all his officials will be wicked. Berean Study Bible If a ruler listens to lies, all his officials will be wicked. New American Standard Bible If a ruler pays attention to falsehood, All his ministers become wicked. New King James Version If a ruler pays attention to lies, All his servants become wicked. King James Bible If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked. Christian Standard Bible If a ruler listens to lies, all his officials will be wicked. Contemporary English Version A ruler who listens to lies will have corrupt officials. Good News Translation If a ruler pays attention to false information, all his officials will be liars. Holman Christian Standard Bible If a ruler listens to lies, all his officials will be wicked. International Standard Version When a ruler is listening to lies, all of his officials tend to become wicked. NET Bible If a ruler listens to lies, all his ministers will be wicked. New Heart English Bible If a ruler listens to lies, all of his officials are wicked. Aramaic Bible in Plain English All the Servants of a Prince that hears a lying word are evil. GOD'S WORD® Translation If a ruler pays attention to lies, all his servants become wicked. JPS Tanakh 1917 If a ruler hearkeneth to falsehood, All his servants are wicked. New American Standard 1977 If a ruler pays attention to falsehood, All his ministers become wicked. Jubilee Bible 2000 Of the ruler who hearkens unto the lying word, all his ministers are evil. King James 2000 Bible If a ruler hearkens to lies, all his servants are wicked. American King James Version If a ruler listen to lies, all his servants are wicked. American Standard Version If a ruler hearkeneth to falsehood, All his servants are wicked. Brenton Septuagint Translation When a king hearkens to unjust language, all his subjects are transgressors. Douay-Rheims Bible A prince that gladly heareth lying words, hath all his servants wicked. Darby Bible Translation If a ruler hearken to lying words, all his servants are wicked. English Revised Version If a ruler hearkeneth to falsehood, all his servants are wicked. Webster's Bible Translation If a ruler hearkeneth to lies, all his servants are wicked. World English Bible If a ruler listens to lies, all of his officials are wicked. Young's Literal Translation A ruler who is attending to lying words, All his ministers are wicked. Study Bible The Stiff-Necked will Be Destroyed…11A fool vents all his anger, but a wise man holds it back. 12If a ruler listens to lies, all his officials will be wicked. 13The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: The LORD gives light to the eyes of both.… Cross References 1 Kings 12:14 and spoke to them as the young men had advised, saying, "Although my father made your yoke heavy, I will add to your yoke. Although my father scourged you with whips, I will scourge you with scorpions!" 2 Kings 21:9 But the people did not listen and Manasseh led them astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites. Jeremiah 37:2 He and his officers and the people of the land refused to obey the words that the LORD had spoken through Jeremiah the prophet. Treasury of Scripture If a ruler listen to lies, all his servants are wicked. Proverbs 20:8 A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes. Proverbs 25:23 The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue. 1 Samuel 22:8 That all of you have conspired against me, and there is none that sheweth me that my son hath made a league with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you that is sorry for me, or sheweth unto me that my son hath stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day? Lexicon If a rulerמֹ֭שֵׁל (mō·šêl) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 4910: To rule, have dominion, reign listens מַקְשִׁ֣יב (maq·šîḇ) Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 7181: To prick up the ears, hearken to עַל־ (‘al-) Preposition Strong's Hebrew 5921: Above, over, upon, against lies, דְּבַר־ (də·ḇar-) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's Hebrew 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a cause all כָּֽל־ (kāl-) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's Hebrew 3605: The whole, all, any, every his officials מְשָׁרְתָ֥יו (mə·šā·rə·ṯāw) Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 8334: To attend as a, menial, worshipper, to contribute to will be wicked. רְשָׁעִֽים׃ (rə·šā·‘îm) Adjective - masculine plural Strong's Hebrew 7563: Wrong, an, bad person (12) If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.--If a ruler shows that he likes adulation and falsehood rather than unpleasant truths, his attendants will provide him with what he wishes. (Comp. Ecclesiasticus 10:2.) So Jeremiah complains (Jeremiah 5:31) that prophets, priests, and people were all wilfully deceiving each other.Verse 12. - All his servants are wicked. The ruler is willing to be deceived, and does not care to hear the truth, so his servants flatter and lie to him, and the whole atmosphere is charged with unreality and deceit. Qualis rex, talis grex. Ecclus. 10:2, "As the judge of the people is himself, so are his officers; and what manner of man the ruler of the city is, such are all that dwell therein." Claudian, 'IV. Cons. Hon.,' 299 - "Componitur orbis Regis ad exemplum: nec sic inflectere sensus Humanos edicta valent, ut vita regentis. Mobile mutatur semper cum principe vulgus." "By the king's precedent The world is ordered; and men's minds are moved Less by stern edicts than their ruler's life. The fickle crowd aye by the prince is swayed." Cicero, 'De Leg.,' 3:13, "Ut enim cupiditatibus principum et vitiis iufici solet tota civitas, sic emendari et corrigi continentia." And ibid., 14, "Quo perniciosius de republica merentur vitiosi principes, quod non solum vitia concipiunt ipsi, sod ea infundunt in civitatem; neque solum obsunt, ipsi quod corrumpuntur, sed etiam quod corrumpunt, plusque exemplo, quam peccato, nocent." Jump to Previous Attending Attention Evil-Doers False. Falsehood Gives Hearken Hearkeneth Listens Ministers Officials Pays Ruler Servants Wicked WordsJump to Next Attending Attention Evil-Doers False. 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