Proverbs 16:15
In the light of the king’s face is life. His favour is like a cloud of the spring rain.
World English Bible British
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 king’s wrath is a messenger of death, but a wise man will pacify it.
Cross References
Job 29:23They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.
Psalms 21:6For you make him most blessed forever. You make him glad with joy in your presence.
Psalms 72:6He will come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.
Proverbs 29:26Many seek the ruler’s favour, but a man’s justice comes from the LORD.
Zechariah 10:1Ask of the LORD rain in the spring time, the LORD who makes storm clouds, and he gives rain showers to everyone for the plants 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 →