King James Version (KJV)
Proverbs 19:12
“The king's wrath [is] as the roaring of a lion; but his favour [is] as dew upon the grass.”
Verse in context — Proverbs 19
10
Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
11
The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and [it is] his glory to pass over a transgression.
12
The king's wrath [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.
14
House and riches [are] the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife [is] from the LORD.