Proverbs 19:12
The king's wrath is like the loud cry of a lion, but his approval is like dew on the grass.
Bible in Basic English
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
11A man's good sense makes him slow to wrath, and the overlooking of wrongdoing is his glory.
Cross References
2 Samuel 23:4It is as the light of the morning, when the sun comes up, a morning without clouds; making young grass come to life from the earth.
Esther 7:8Then the king came back from the garden into the room where they had been drinking; and Haman was stretched out on the seat where Esther was. Then the king said, Is he taking the queen by force before my eyes in my house? And while the words were on the king's lips, they put a cloth over Haman's face.
Psalms 133:3Like the dew of Hermon, which comes down on the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord gave orders for the blessing, even life for ever.
Proverbs 20:2The wrath of a king is like the loud cry of a lion: he who makes him angry does wrong against himself.
Ecclesiastes 8:4The word of a king has authority; and who may say to him, What is this you are doing?
Daniel 3:19Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of wrath, and the form of his face was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego: and he gave orders that the fire was to be heated up seven times more than it was generally heated.
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 →