Proverbs 19:12

Proverbs chapter 19 · verse 12 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

The king’s wrath is as the roaring of a lion; But his favor is as dew upon the grass.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

The king’s wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

The king’s wrath is as the roaring of a lion; But his favor is as dew upon the grass.

Context

v.11The discretion of a man maketh him slow to anger; And it is his glory to pass over a transgression.

v.12This passage

v.13A foolish son is the calamity of his father; And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Psalms 72:6

    He will come down like rain upon the mown grass, As showers that water the earth.

  • Daniel 2:12

    For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.

  • Proverbs 28:15

    Asa roaring lion, and a ranging bear, So isa wicked ruler over a poor people.

  • Daniel 3:19

    Then 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.

  • Ecclesiastes 8:4

    For the king’s word hath power; and who may say unto him, What doest thou?

  • Daniel 6:24

    And the king commanded, and they brought those men that 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, before they came to the bottom of the den.