Proverbs 19:12

Bible in Basic English 1965

The king's wrath is like the loud cry of a lion, but his approval is like dew on the grass.

Cross References

Genesis 27:28

May God give you the dew of heaven, and the good things of the earth, and grain and wine in full measure:

2 Samuel 23:4

It is as the light of the morning, when the sun comes up, a morning without clouds; making young grass come to life from the earth.

Esther 1:12

But when the servants gave her the king's order, Vashti the queen said she would not come: then the king was very angry, and his heart was burning with wrath.

Esther 7:8

Then the king came back from the garden into the room where they had been drinking; and Haman was stretched out on the seat where Esther was. Then the king said, Is he taking the queen by force before my eyes in my house? And while the words were on the king's lips, they put a cloth over Haman's face.

Psalm 133:3

Like the dew of Hermon, which comes down on the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord gave orders for the blessing, even life for ever.

Psalm 72:6

May he come down like rain on the cut grass; like showers watering the earth.

Proverbs 20:2

The wrath of a king is like the loud cry of a lion: he who makes him angry does wrong against himself.

Proverbs 28:15

Like a loud-voiced lion and a wandering bear, is an evil ruler over a poor people.

Ecclesiastes 8:4

The word of a king has authority; and who may say to him, What is this you are doing?

Isaiah 18:4

For this is what the Lord has said to me: I will be quiet, watching from my place; like the clear heat when the sun is shining, like a mist of dew in the heat of summer.

Daniel 5:19

And because of the great power he gave him, all peoples and nations and languages were shaking in fear before him: some he put to death and others he kept living, at his pleasure, lifting up some and putting others down as it pleased him.

Daniel 6:24

And at the king's order, they took those men who had said evil against Daniel, and put them in the lions' hole, with their wives and their children; and they had not got to the floor of the hole before the lions overcame them and all their bones were broken.

Hosea 14:5

I will be as the dew to Israel; he will put out flowers like a lily, and send out his roots like Lebanon.

Micah 5:7

And the rest of Jacob will be among the mass of peoples like dew from the Lord, like showers on the grass, which may not be kept back by man, or be waiting for the sons of men.

Deuteronomy 33:28

And Israel is living in peace, the fountain of Jacob by himself, in a land of grain and wine, with dew dropping from the heavens.