Proverbs 16:13 (BSB)

Righteous lips are a king’s delight, and he who speaks honestly is beloved.

From Proverbs 16. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 16:13

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 16:13: Here is a further character of good kings, that they love and delight in those that speak right. 1. They hate parasites and those that flatter them, and are very willing that all about them should deal faithfully with them and tell them that which is true, whether it be pleasing or displeasing, both concerning persons and things, that every thing should be set in...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 16:13: Righteous lips are the delight of kings,.... Such that speak truth and righteousness, and advise to the administration of justice and judgment, and to do that which is most for their own true honour and the people's good, are, or ought to be, highly valued and esteemed by kings: but the contrary is too often the case; kings hearken to those that speak lies, that...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 16:13: A specification of the general sentiment of Pro 16:12.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 16:13: Pro 16:13 History is full of such warning examples, and therefore this proverb continues to hold up the mirror to princes. Well-pleasing to kings are righteous lips, And whoever speaketh uprightly is loved. Rightly the lxx ἀγαπᾶ, individ. plur., instead of the plur. of genus, מלכים; on the contrary, Jerome and Luther give to the sing.