Proverbs 28:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁵ Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a 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 Krydshenvisninger

2 Kings 15:16

At that time Menahem sacked Tiphsah, all who were in it and its territory from Tirzah on; because they did not open it to him, he sacked it. He ripped open all the pregnant women in it.

2 Kings 2:24

When he turned around and saw them, he cursed them in the name of the Lord. Then two she-bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys.

2 Kings 21:16

Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides the sin that he caused Judah to sin so that they did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.

Exodus 1:13

The Egyptians subjected the Israelites to hard servitude

Exodus 1:22

Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, “Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall throw into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live.”

Proverbs 17:12

Better to meet a she-bear robbed of its cubs than to confront a fool immersed in folly.

Proverbs 19:12

A king’s anger is like the growling of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

Proverbs 20:2

The dread anger of a king is like the growling of a lion; anyone who provokes him to anger forfeits life itself.

Proverbs 29:2

When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule, the people groan.

Isaiah 14:5

The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of rulers,

Isaiah 14:6

that struck down the peoples in wrath with unceasing blows, that ruled the nations in anger with unrelenting persecution.

Hosea 13:8

I will fall upon them like a bear robbed of her cubs and will tear open the covering of their heart; there I will devour them like a lion, as a wild animal would mangle them.

Hosea 5:11

Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, because he was determined to go after vanity.

Zephaniah 3:3

The officials within it are roaring lions; its judges are evening wolves that leave nothing until the morning.

Matthew 2:16

When Herod saw that he had been tricked by the magi, he was infuriated, and he sent and killed all the children in and around Bethlehem who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had learned from the magi.

1 Peter 5:8

Discipline yourselves; keep alert. Like a roaring lion your adversary the devil prowls around, looking for someone to devour.