Revised Version 1895
Proverbs 19:12
12The king’s wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.
Proverbs 19:12 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The king’s wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.
- New International Version (NIV)A king’s rage is like the roar of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.
- English Standard Version (ESV)A king's wrath is like the growling of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The king’s wrath is like the roaring of a lion, But his favor is like dew on the grass.
Context of Proverbs 19:12
10Delicate living is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes. 11The discretion of a man maketh him slow to anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. The king’s wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass. 13A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping. 14House and riches are an inheritance from fathers: but a prudent wife is from the LORD.
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נַ֣הַם כַּ֭כְּפִיר זַ֣עַף מֶ֑לֶךְ וּכְטַ֖ל עַל־עֵ֣שֶׂב רְצוֹנֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Proverbs 19:12
- Proverbs 16:14The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it.
- Proverbs 20:2The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion: he that provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own life.
- Proverbs 28:15As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
- Esther 7:8Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the couch whereon Esther was. Then said the king, Will he even force the queen before me in the house? As the word went out of the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.
- Ecclesiastes 8:4Because the king’s word hath power; and who may say unto him, What doest thou?
- Daniel 2:12For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.
- Daniel 3:19Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was wont to be heated.
- Daniel 5:19and because of the greatness that he gave him, all the peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew, and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he raised up, and whom he would he put down.
- Daniel 6:24And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces, or ever they came at the bottom of the den.
- Luke 12:4And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them which kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
- 2 Samuel 23:4He shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, a morning without clouds; when the tender grass springeth out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.
- Psalms 72:6He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.
- Hosea 14:5I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall blossom as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
Commentaries on Proverbs 19:12
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 12The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion - There is nothing more dreadful than the roaring of this tyrant of the forest. At the sound of it all other animals tremble, flee away, and hide themselves. The king who is above law, and rules without law, and whose will is his own law, is like the lion. This is strongly descriptive of the character of Asiatic sovereigns.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 12Verse 12 Christ is a King, whose wrath against his enemies will be as the roaring of a lion, and his favour to his people as the refreshing dew.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 12A lion's roar warns of danger and possible violence (compare Proverbs 20:2). Dew on the grass is calming and helps plants grow (see Proverbs 16:14–15).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1212. (Compare Pr 16:14, 15; 20:2). A motive to submission to lawful authority.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 19
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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