Proverbs 29:26 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁶Many seek the ruler's favour; but every man's judgment cometh from the LORD.

Proverbs 29:26 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 19:6
Many will intreat the favour of the prince: and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.
Psalms 20:9
Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call.
Proverbs 19:21
There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.
Isaiah 46:9-11
Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, …
Isaiah 49:4
Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 26)

See here, 1. What is the common course men take to advance and enrich themselves, and make themselves great: they seek the ruler’s favour, and, as if all their judgment proceeded from him, to him they make all their court. Solomon was himself a ruler, and knew with what sedulity men made their application to him, some on one errand, others on another, but all for his favour. It is the way of the w…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 26)

26. (Compare Margin; Psa 27:8). God alone will and can do exact justice.