Proverbs 25:2 (BSB)

It is the glory of God to conceal a matter and the glory of kings to search it out.

From Proverbs 25. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 25:2

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 25:2-3: Here is, 1. An instance given of the honour of God: It is his glory to conceal a matter. He needs not search into any thing, for he perfectly knows every thing by a clear and certain view, and nothing can be hidden from him; and yet his own way is in the sea and his path in the great waters.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 25:2: It is the glory of God to conceal a thing,.... Secret things belong unto him, and they are kept so by him: many things which he does reveal, yet the "modus" or manner of them remains hidden; as what relates to his own being, and manner of subsisting; the trinity of Persons in the Godhead; the filiation or the Son, and the procession of the...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 25:2: God's unsearchableness impresses us with awe (compare Isa 45:15; Rom 11:33). But kings, being finite, should confer with wise counsellors;
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 25:2: [It is] the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings [is] to search out a matter. (c) God does not reveal the cause of his judgments to man. (d) Because the king rules by the revealed word of God, the cause of his doings must appear, and therefore he must use diligence in trying causes.