THEOSISProverbs 16:15Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
In the cheerfulness of the king's countenance is life: and his clemency is like the latter rain.
בְּאוֹר־פְּנֵי־מֶ֥לֶךְ חַיִּ֑ים וּ֝רְצוֹנ֗וֹ כְּעָ֣ב מַלְקֽוֹשׁ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Ps 72 (71):6
- Job 29:23They waited for me as for rain, and they opened their mouth as for a latter shower.
- Job 29:24If at any time I laughed on them, they believed not, and the light of my countenance fell not on earth.
- Acts 2:28Thou hast made known to me the ways of life: thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.
- Hos 6:3He will revive us after two days: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. We shall know, and we shall follow on, that we may know the Lord. His going forth is prepared as the morning light, and he will come to us as the early and the latter rain to the earth.
- Ps 21 (20):6
- Prov 19:12As the roaring of a lion, so also is the anger of a king: and his cheerfulness as the dew upon the grass.
- Ps 30 (29):5