Proverbs 19:12

The Kings wrath is like the roaring of a lyon: but his fauour is like the dewe vpon ye grasse.

Geneva Bible 1599

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 man deferreth his anger: and his glory is to passe by an offence.

13A foolish sonne is the calamitie of his father, and the contentions of a wife are like a continuall dropping.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 23:4Euen as the morning light when the sunne riseth, the morning, I say, without cloudes, so shall mine house be, and not as the grasse of the earth is by the bright raine.

Esther 7:8And when the King came againe out of the palace garden, into the house where they dranke wine, Haman was fallen vpon the bed whereon Ester sate! therefore the King sayd, Will he force the Queene also before me in the house? As the worde went out of the Kings mouth, they couered Hamans face.

Psalms 133:3And as the dew of Hermon, which falleth vpon the mountaines of Zion: for there the Lord appointed the blessing and life for euer.

Proverbs 20:2The feare of the King is like the roaring of a lyon: hee that prouoketh him vnto anger, sinneth against his owne soule.

Ecclesiastes 8:4Where the word of ye King is, there is power, and who shall say vnto him, What doest thou?

Daniel 3:19Then was Nebuchad-nezzar full of rage, and the forme of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: therefore hee charged and commanded that they should heate the fornace at once seuen times more then it was wont to be heat.

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 →

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