In the light of the king's countenance is life; and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain.
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Gill's Exposition
In the light of the king's countenance is life,.... When he looks with a pleasant smiling countenance on a person that has been under his displeasure, and especially if under a sentence of death, it…
Barnes' Notes
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…
These two verses show the power of kings, which is every where great, but was especially so in those eastern countries, where they were absolute and arbitrary. Whom they would they slew and whom they…
Cambridge Bible
the latter rain i.e. the spring rain, which swelled and matured the corn for harvest, just as the "former" or autumn rain prepared the ground, after the drought of summer, for the sowing. Such a cloud…
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