Proverbs 14:28
In a populous nation is the glory of a king: but in the failure of people is the ruin of a prince.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
29A man slow to wrath abounds in wisdom: but a man of impatient spirit is very foolish.
Cross References
Exodus 1:12But as they humbled them, by so much they multiplied, and grew exceedingly strong; and the Egyptians greatly abhorred the children of Israel.
2 Samuel 24:3And Joab said to the king, Now may the Lord add to the people one hundred-fold as many as they are, and may the eyes of my lord the king + 24:3 Gr. seeing. see it: but why does my lord the king desire this thing?
1 Kings 20:27And because of the word, Achaab was pierced with sorrow + 20:27 Gr. the face, as it were, of the Lord. before the Lord, and he both went weeping, and tore his garment, and girded sackcloth upon his body, and fasted; he put on sackcloth also in the day that he struck Nabuthai the Jezraelite, and went his way.
2 Kings 13:7Whereas there was not left any + 13:7 Gr. people. army to Joachaz, except fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand infantry: for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and they made them as dust for trampling.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 14:27-28
26 In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge. 27 The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death. In these two verses we are invited and encouraged to live in the fear of God by the advantages which attend a religious life. The fear of the Lord is here put for all gracious principles, producing gracious practices. 1. Where this reigns it produces a holy security and serenity of mind. There is in it a strong confidence; it enables a… Read the whole commentary →