Proverbs 19:12
The wrath of a king is like the roaring of a lion; But his favor, like dew upon the grass.
Noyes Bible
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 of understanding is slow to anger; Yea, it is his glory to pass over an offence.
13A foolish son is a calamity to his father, And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
Cross References
Psalms 133:3Like the dew of Hermon, Like that which descendeth upon the mountains of Zion. For there the LORD commandeth a blessing, Even life for evermore.
Proverbs 20:2The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion; He who provoketh him sinneth against himself.
Ecclesiastes 8:4For the word of the king is powerful; and who can say to him, “What doest thou?”
Daniel 3:19Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. And he spake and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was wont to be 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 →