Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

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

New American Standard Bible

The king’s wrath is like the roaring of a lion,
But his favor is like dew on the grass.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

A king’s rage is like the roaring of a lion,
but his favor is like dew on the grass.

International Standard Version

The king's anger is like the roaring of a lion, but his goodwill is like dew on the grass.

A Conservative Version

The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion, but his favor is as dew upon the grass.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


The king’s wrath terrifies like the roaring of a lion,
But his favor is as [refreshing and nourishing as] dew on the grass.

Bible in Basic English

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

Julia Smith Translation

The king's wrath growling as the young lion, and his acceptance as dew upon the grass.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

The rage of a king growls like a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

Modern King James verseion

The king's wrath is like the roaring of a lion; but his favor is like dew on the grass.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The king's disfavor is like the roaring of a Lion, but his friendship is like the dew upon the grass.

NET Bible

A king's wrath is like the roar of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

New Heart English Bible

The king's wrath is like the roaring of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

The Emphasized Bible

The growl as of a young lion, is the rage of a king, but, like dew upon the grass, is his good pleasure.

Webster

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

World English Bible

The king's wrath is like the roaring of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

Youngs Literal Translation

The wrath of a king is a growl as of a young lion, And as dew on the herb his good-will.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
מלך 
melek 
Usage: 2521

זעף 
Za`aph 
Usage: 6

is as the roaring
נהם 
Naham 
Usage: 2

of a lion
כּפיר 
K@phiyr 
Usage: 32

but his favour
רצן רצון 
Ratsown 
Usage: 56

is as dew
טל 
Tal 
dew
Usage: 31

References

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Context Readings

How To Avoid Fools And Foolishness

11 The discretion of a man maketh him slow to anger, and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. 12 The king's displeasure is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass. 13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father; and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

Cross References

Proverbs 16:14-15

The fury of a king is as messengers of death; but a wise man will pacify it.

Hosea 14:5

I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall blossom as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.

Psalm 133:3

As the dew of Hermon that descendeth on the mountains of Zion; for there hath Jehovah commanded the blessing, life for evermore.

Proverbs 20:2

The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion: he that provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.

Proverbs 28:15

A roaring lion, and a ranging bear, is a wicked ruler over a poor people.

2 Samuel 23:4

And he shall be as the light or the morning, like the rising of the sun, A morning without clouds; When from the sunshine, after rain, The green grass springeth from the earth.

Esther 7:8

And the king returned out of the palace garden into the house of the banquet of wine, and Haman was fallen upon the couch on which Esther was. And the king said, Will he even force the queen before me in the house? The word went forth out of the king's mouth, and they covered Haman's face.

Psalm 72:6

He shall come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.

Ecclesiastes 8:4

because the word of a king is power; and who may say unto him, What doest thou?

Daniel 2:12-13

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

Daniel 3:19-23

Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. He spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was wont to be heated.

Daniel 5:19

and for the greatness that he gave him, all 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 exalted, and whom he would he humbled.

Daniel 6:24

And the king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and broke all their bones in pieces ere they came to the bottom of the den.

Micah 5:7

And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples as dew from Jehovah, as showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, neither waiteth for the sons of men.

Luke 12:4-5

But I say to you, my friends, Fear not those who kill the body and after this have no more that they can do.

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