Proverbs 19:12
The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion, but his favor is as dew upon the grass.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
The king’s wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.
In Context
11The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger, and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
13A foolish son is the calamity of his father, and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
Cross References
2 Samuel 23:4[he shall be] as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, [when] the tender grass [springs] out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.
Esther 7:8Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine, and Haman was fallen upon the couch on which Esther was. Then the king said, Will he even force the queen before me in the house? As the word we
Psalms 133:3like the dew of Hermon, that comes down upon the mountains of Zion. For there LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
Proverbs 20:2The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger sins [against] his own life.
Ecclesiastes 8:4For the king's word [has] power, and who may say to him, What are thou doing?
Daniel 3:19Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. [Therefore] he spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was accustomed to
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 19:12
11 The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. A wise man will observe these two rules about his anger: 1. Not to be over-hasty in his resentments: Discretion teaches us to defer our anger, to defer the admission of it till we have thoroughly considered all the merits of the provocation, seen them in a true light and weighed them in a just balance; and then to defer the prosecution of it till there be no danger of running into any indecencies. Plato said to his… Read the whole commentary →