Proverbs 28:15 - The Scriptures 2009

¹⁵ A roaring lion and a charging bear Is a wrongdoing ruler over poor people.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; So is a wicked ruler over the poor people.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ Like a roaring lion or a ravenous and charging bear is a wicked ruler over a poor people.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear, So is a wicked ruler over a poor people.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ A wicked ruler over the poor is like a growling lion or a prowling bear.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ An impious leader over a poor people is like a roaring lion and a hungry bear.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ As a roaring lion, and a hungry bear, so is a wicked prince over the poor people.

Proverbs 28:15 Cross References

2 Kings 15:16

And Menaḥĕm struck Tiphsaḥ, and all who were there, and its borders, from Tirtsah. Because they did not open it to him, therefore he struck it. And he ripped open all the pregnant women.

2 Kings 2:24

And he turned around and looked at them, and pronounced a curse on them in the Name of יהוה. And two female bears came out of the forest and tore to pieces forty-two of the youths.

2 Kings 21:16

And also, Menashsheh shed very much innocent blood, until he had filled Yerushalayim from one end to another, besides his sin with which he made Yehuḏah sin, in doing evil in the eyes of יהוה.

Exodus 1:13

And the Mitsrites made the children of Yisra’ĕl serve with harshness,

Exodus 1:22

And Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “Throw every son who is born into the river, and keep alive every daughter.”

Proverbs 17:12

Let a bereaved bear meet a man, Rather than a fool in his folly.

Proverbs 19:12

The sovereign’s wrath is like the roaring of a lion, But his delight is like dew on the grass.

Proverbs 20:2

The dread of a sovereign is like the roaring of a lion; Whoever provokes him sins against his own life.

Proverbs 29:2

When the righteous increase, the people rejoice; But when a wrong one rules, the people sigh.

Isaiah 14:5

“יהוה has broken the staff of the wrong, the sceptre of the rulers,

Isaiah 14:6

he who struck the people in wrath with ceaseless blows, he who ruled the nations in displeasure, is persecuted and no one restrains.

Hosea 13:8

like a bear robbed of her young I attack them and rip open the enclosure of their heart. And there I devour them like a lion, a wild beast tear them apart.

Hosea 5:11

“Ephrayim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, because he walked after the command when it pleased him.

Zephaniah 3:3

Her rulers in her midst are roaring lions, her judges are evening wolves, they shall leave no bone until morning.

Matthew 2:16

Then Herodes, having seen that he was fooled by the Magi, was greatly enraged, and he sent forth and slew all the male children in Bĕyth Leḥem and in all its borders, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had exactly learnt from the Magi.

1 Peter 5:8

Be sober, watch, because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.