Proverbs 16:10 (BSB)

A divine verdict is on the lips of a king; his mouth must not betray justice.

From Proverbs 16. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 16:10

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 16:10: We wish this were always true as a proposition, and we ought to make it our prayer for kings, and all in authority, that a divine sentence may be in their lips, both in giving orders, that they may do that in wisdom, and in giving sentence, that they may do that in equity, both which are included in judgment, and that in neither their mouth may transgress, Ti1 2:1.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 16:10: A divine sentence is in the lips of the king,.... Or "divination" (f), as the word signifies; or what is like to divination, as Aben Ezra and Gersom interpret it (g). What be says is as an oracle, and should be strictly true.
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 16:10: The last clause depends on the first, expressing the importance of equity in decisions, so authoritative.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 16:10: Pro 16:10 10 Oracular decision (belongeth) to the lips of the king; In the judgment his mouth should not err. The first line is a noun clause: קסם, as subject, thus needs a distinctive accent, and that is here, after the rule of the sequence of accents, and manuscript authority (vid., Torath Emeth, p. 49), not Mehuppach legarme, as in our printed copies, but Dechi (קסם).