remove the wicked from before the king, ¹  and his throne ²  will be established in righteousness. ³ 

biblegateway Pro 25:5

Take away the wicked before the king, And his throne will be established in righteousness.

Remove the wicked from the king's presence, and his throne will be established in righteousness.

Take a wicked person away from the presence of a king, and justice will make his throne secure.

biblegateway Pro 25:5

remove the wicked from the king’s presence, and his throne will be established through righteousness.

take away the wicked from the presence of the king, and his throne will be established in righteousness.

bibleoremus Pro 25:5

take away the wicked from the presence of the king, and his throne will be established in righteousness.

rid the king's presence of the wicked, and his throne will rest firmly on righteousness.

biblegateway Pro 25:5

Take away the wicked from before the king, And his throne will be established in righteousness.

Take away the wicked [from] before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.

biblegateway Pro 25:5

remove the wicked from before the king, ¹  and his throne ²  will be established in righteousness. ³ 

¹ sn These two verses present first an illustration and then the point (so it is emblematic parallelism). The passage uses imperatives to teach that the wicked must be purged from the kingdom.

² sn “Throne” is a metonymy of subject (or adjunct); it is the symbol of the government over which the king presides (cf. NCV, TEV).

³ sn When the king purges the wicked from his court he will be left with righteous counselors and his government therefore will be “established in righteousness” – it will endure through righteousness (cf. NLT “made secure by justice”). But as J. H. Greenstone says, “The king may have perfect ideals and his conduct may be irreproachable, but he may be misled by unscrupulous courtiers” (Proverbs, 264).