Proverbs 17:7

Modern

Eloquent words are unfit for a fool; how much worse are lying lips to a ruler!

Traditional

Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.

Literal

A lip of excellence is not lovely to a fool, even less to a prince is a lip of falsehood.

Latin

Non decent stultum verba composita, nec principem labium mentiens.

Hebrew

English

Eloquent words are unfit for a fool; how much worse are lying lips to a ruler!

Proverbs 29:12
If a ruler listens to lies, all his officials will be wicked.
Psalm 50:16–17
To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?
Matthew 7:5
You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
2 Samuel 23:3
The God of Israel spoke; the Rock of Israel said to me, ‘He who rules the people with justice, who rules in the fear of God,
Proverbs 16:10–13
A divine verdict is on the lips of a king; his mouth must not betray justice.
Psalm 101:3–5
I will set no worthless thing before my eyes. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.
Job 34:12
Indeed, it is true that God does not act wickedly, and the Almighty does not pervert justice.
Proverbs 12:19
Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue lasts only a moment.
Proverbs 26:7
Like lame legs hanging limp is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.