In the light of the king’s face is life. His favor is like a cloud of the spring rain.
In the light of a king's countenance [is] life; and his favour [is] as a cloud of the latter rain. (i) Which is most comfortable to the dry ground.
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 is as life from the dead: so the light of the countenance of God, the King of kings; the discoveries of his love, the manifestations of himself, his gracious presence...
Pro 16:15 15 In the light on the king’s countenance there is life, And his favour is as a cloud of the latter rains. Hitzig regards אור as the inf. (cf. Pro 4:18), but one says substantively אור פּני, Job 29:24, etc., and in a similar sense מאור עינים, Pro 15:30; light is the condition of life, and the exhilaration of life, wherefore אור החיּים, Ps.