Proverbs 16:15
When a king’s face brightens, there is life; his favor is like a rain cloud in spring.
BSB
ASV
In the light of the king’s countenance is life; And his favor is as a cloud of the latter rain.
KJV
In the light of the king’s countenance is life; and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain.
The “latter rain” is that which falls in March or April just before the harvest. The “cloud” which brings it, immediately screening people from the scorching sun, and bringing plenty and blessing, is a fit type of the highest favor.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Acts 2:28You have made known to me the paths of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence.’
leads to
You have made known to me the path of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence, with eternal pleasures at Your right hand.
Through
Hosea 6:3So let us know—let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water…
leads to
I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD. They will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with all their…
I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily and take root like the cedars of Lebanon.
My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,
May he be like rain that falls on freshly cut grass, like spring showers that water the earth.
Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,
Through
Psalms 4:6Many ask, “Who can show us the good?” Shine the light of Your face upon us, O LORD.
leads to
Restore us, O LORD God of Hosts; cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.
may the LORD lift up His countenance toward you and give you peace.’
