Proverbs 16:15
In the light of the king's countenance is life, and his favor is as a cloud of the latter rain.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In the light of the king’s countenance is life; and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain.
In Context
14The wrath of a king is messengers of death, but a wise man will pacify it.
Cross References
Job 29:23And they waited for me as for the rain. And they opened their mouth wide [as] for the latter rain.
Psalms 21:6For thou make him most blessed forever. Thou make him glad with joy in thy presence.
Psalms 72:6He will come down like rain upon the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.
Proverbs 29:26Many seek the ruler's favor, but a man's justice [is] from LORD.
Zechariah 10:1Ask ye of LORD rain in the time of the latter rain, [even of] LORD who makes lightnings, and he will give them showers of rain, to everyone grass in the field.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 16:15-16
14 The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it. 15 In the light of the king's countenance is life; and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain. These two verses show the power of kings, which is every where great, but was especially so in those eastern countries, where they were absolute and arbitrary. Whom they would they slew and whom they would they kept alive. Their will was a law. We have reason to bless God for the happy constitution of the government we live under, which… Read the whole commentary →