Parallel Verses

King James 2000

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

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

The king's wrath growling as the young lion, and his acceptance 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

American

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Fausets

Hastings

Watsons

Context Readings

How To Avoid Fools And Foolishness

11 The discretion of a man delays his anger; and it is his glory to overlook a transgression. 12 The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favor 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 dripping.

Cross References

Proverbs 16:14-15

The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will appease it.

Hosea 14:5

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

Psalm 133:3

As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life forevermore.

Proverbs 20:2

The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whosoever provokes him to anger sins against his own life.

Proverbs 28:15

As a roaring lion, and a charging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.

2 Samuel 23:4

And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth, by clear shining after rain.

Esther 7:8

Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the bed on which Esther was. Then said the king, Will he force the queen also before me in the house? As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.

Psalm 72:6

He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.

Ecclesiastes 8:4

Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What are you doing?

Daniel 2:12-13

For this cause the king was angry and very furious, 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 appearance was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: therefore he spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated.

Daniel 5:19

And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, 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 set up; and whom he would he put down.

Daniel 6:24

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

Micah 5:7

And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarries not for man, nor waits for the sons of men.

Luke 12:4-5

And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.

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