Proverbs 19:12
The king’s wrath is like the roaring of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.
World Messianic 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
11The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.
13A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.
Cross References
2 Samuel 23:4shall be as the light of the morning when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.’
Esther 7:8Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman had fallen on the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, “Will he even assault the queen in front of me in the house?” As the word went out of the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.
Psalms 133:3like the dew of Hermon, that comes down on the hills of Zion; for there the LORD gives the blessing, even life forever more.
Proverbs 20:2The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.
Ecclesiastes 8:4for the king’s word is supreme. Who can say to him, “What are you doing?”
Daniel 3:19Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury, and the form of his appearance was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually 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 →