King James Version (KJV)
Proverbs 21:14
“A gift in secret pacifieth anger: and a reward in the bosom strong wrath.”
Verse in context — Proverbs 21
12
The righteous [man] wisely considereth the house of the wicked: [but God] overthroweth the wicked for [their] wickedness.
13
Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.
14
A gift in secret pacifieth anger: and a reward in the bosom strong wrath.
15
[It is] joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction [shall be] to the workers of iniquity.
16
The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.