Proverbs 16:15
In the light of the countenance of melech is chayyim, 1 and his favor is like the cloud of a spring rain. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
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 melech is as malachim of mavet, 1 but an ish chacham will appease it. 1
Cross References
Job 29:23And they waited for me as for the matar; 1 and they opened their mouth wide as for the malkosh (spring, late rain). 1
Psalms 21:6Gadol is his kavod in Thy Yeshu'ah (salvation); 1 hod v'hadar hast Thou bestowed upon him. 1
Psalms 72:6He shall come down like matar (rain) upon the mown field, 1 as showers watering eretz. 1
Proverbs 29:26Many seek the moshelʼs favor, 1 but mishpat ish cometh from Hashem. 1
Zechariah 10:1Ask ye of Hashem rain in the time of the latter rain; 1 from Hashem who makes the storm clouds, 1 and gives them showers of rain, 1 to every one esev + 10:1 Gn 1:12 in the sadeh. 1
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 →