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Proverbs 16:14
The wrath of a King is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacifie it.
Proverbs 16:14 · Geneva Bible
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Proverbs 16:14 in other translations
The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it.
The wrath of a king is a messenger of death, but a wise man will pacify it.
The king’s wrath is a messenger of death, but a wise man will pacify it.
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In context
11 A true weight and balance are of the Lord: all the weightes of the bagge are his worke.
12 It is an abomination to Kings to commit wickednes: for the throne is stablished by iustice.
13 Righteous lips are the delite of Kings, and the King loueth him that speaketh right things.
14 The wrath of a King is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacifie it.
15 In the light of the Kings coutenance is life: and his fauour is as a cloude of the latter raine.
16 Howe much better is it to get wisedome then golde? and to get vnderstanding, is more to be desired then siluer.
17 The pathe of the righteous is to decline from euil, and hee keepeth his soule, that keepeth his way.
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