Proverbs 19:12 - The Man Of Integrity

As the roaring of a lion, so also is the anger of a king: and his cheerfulness as the dew upon the grass.

This bible verse has been derived from Douay-Rheims Bible

If you can take a closer look at Proverbs chapter 19 from verse 11 to 13, and take a bible study you will understand verse 11 better which talks more about:

Verse 12. - The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion, which inspires terror, as preluding danger and death. The same idea occurs in Proverbs 20:2 (comp. Amos 3:4, 8). The Assyrian monuments have made us familiar with the lion as a type of royalty; and the famous throne of Solomon was ornamented with figures of lions on each of its six steps (1 Kings 10:19, etc.). Thus St. Paul. alluding to the Roman emperor, says (2 Timothy 4:17), "I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion." "The lion is dead," announced Marsyas to Agrippa, on the decease of Tiberius (Josephus, 'Ant.,' 18:06, 10). The mondist here gives a monition to kings to repress their wrath and not to let it rage uncontrolled, and a warning to subjects not to offend their ruler, lest he tear them to pieces like a savage beast, which an Eastern despot had full power to do. But his favour is as dew upon the grass. In Proverbs 16:15 the king's favour was compared to a cloud of the latter rain; here it is likened to the dew (comp. Psalm 72:6).

• Pulpit commentary

…11 A man’s insight gives him patience, and his virtue is to overlook an offense. 12 A king’s rage is like the roar of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass. 13 A foolish son is his father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.…

• Berean Study Bible

The moral lesson of this Bible verse is:

An angry king roars like a lion, but when a king is pleased, it's like dew on the crops.

The lesson in the Bible verse has been obtained from: Treasury Of Scripture

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There are more bible verses closely related to this verse, which are:

1. Genesis 27:28
   May God give to you the dew of heaven and the richness of the earth--an abundance of grain and new wine.

2. Deuteronomy 33:28
   So Israel dwells securely; the fountain of Jacob lives untroubled in a land of grain and new wine, where even the heavens drip with dew.

3. Psalms 133:3
   It is like the dew of Hermon falling on the mountains of Zion. For there the LORD has bestowed the blessing of life forevermore.

4. Proverbs 16:14
   The wrath of a king is a messenger of death, but a wise man will pacify it.

5. Proverbs 28:15
   Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a helpless people.

6. Isaiah 18:4
   For this is what the LORD has told me: "I will quietly look on from My dwelling place, like shimmering heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest."

7. Hosea 14:5
   I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily and take root like the cedars of Lebanon.

8. Micah 5:7
   Then the remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples like dew from the LORD, like showers on the grass, which do not wait for man or linger for mankind.

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