Proverbs 16:15
In the light of a king’s countenance, is life, and, his good-pleasure, is like the cloud of harvest-rain.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 king, [meaneth] messengers of death, but, a man who is wise, will appease it.
Cross References
Job 29:23And they waited, as for rain, for me, and, their mouths, they opened wide for the spring-rain;
Psalms 21:6For thou wilt appoint him blessings evermore, wilt cheer him with joy by thy countenance;
Psalms 72:6Let him come down, Like rain on fields to be mown, Like myriad drops on land to be reaped.
Proverbs 29:26Many, seek the face of a ruler, but, from Yahweh, is the sentence of each one.
Zechariah 10:1Ask ye from Yahweh rain, in the time of the latter rain, Yahweh, who causeth flashes of lightning,—and, rain in abundant showers, giveth he unto them, to every man, herbage 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 →