Proverbs 16:15
In the cheerfulness of the king's countenance is life: and his clemency is like the latter rain.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
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 as messengers of death: and the wise man will pacify it.
Cross References
Job 29:23They waited for me as for rain, and they opened their mouth as for a latter shower.
Psalms 21:6They cried to thee, and they were saved: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
Psalms 72:6Therefore pride hath held them fast: they are covered with their iniquity and their wickedness.
Proverbs 29:26Many seek the face of the prince: but the judgment of every one cometh forth from the Lord.
Zechariah 10:1Ask ye of the Lord rain in the latter season, and the Lord will make snows, and will give them showers of rain, to every one 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 →