Proverbs 19:12
The king’s wrath is like the roaring of a lion, 2 but his favor is like dew on the grass. 1
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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
13A foolish son is the calamity of his father. 2 A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping. 1
Cross References
Psalms 133:3like the dew of Hermon [Devoted to destruction], 2 that comes down on the hills of Zion [Mountain ridge, Marking]: 2 for there Adonai enjoined blessing, 2 even life forever more.
Proverbs 20:2The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion. 2 He who provokes him to anger sins ·deviates (from the standard goal)· against his own life. 1
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 →