Proverbs 20:2 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

² Who can say: My heart is clean, I am pure from sin?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: Whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion; whoever provokes him to anger or angers himself against him sins against his own life.

American Standard Version (1901)

² The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion: He that provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own life.

Common English Bible

² A king is as terrifying as a lion’s growl. Those who anger him may lose their life.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² Just like the roaring of a lion, so also is the dread of a king. Whoever provokes him sins in his own soul.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² As the roaring of a lion, so also is the dread of a king: he that provoketh him, sinneth against his own soul.

Proverbs 20:2 Cross References

1 Kings 2:23

8 And the news came to Joab, because Joab had turned after Adonias, and had not turned after Solomon: and Joab fled into the tabernacle of the Lord and laid hold on the horn of the altar.

1 Kings 2:24

9 And it was told king Solomon, that Joab was fled into the tabernacle of the Lord, and was by the altar: and Solomon sent Banaias the son of Joiada, saying: Go, kill him.

Proverbs 19:12

9 He that is impatient, shall suffer damage: and when he shall take away he shall add another thing.

Proverbs 8:36

He that teacheth a scorner, doth an injury to himself: and he that rebuketh a wicked man, getteth himself a blot.

Ecclesiastes 10:4

1 If a serpent bite in silence, he is nothing better that backbiteth secretly.

Hosea 11:10

Therefore turn thou to thy God : keep mercy and judgment, and hope in thy God always.

Amos 3:8

Hear this word, ye fat kine that are in the mountains of Samaria: you that oppress the needy, and crush the poor: that say to your masters: Bring, and we will drink.

Habakkuk 2:10

8 What doth the graven thing avail, because the maker thereof hath graven it, a molten, and a false image? because the forger thereof hath trusted in a thing of his own forging, to make dumb idols.

Numbers 16:38

3 Moses and Aaron fled to the tabernacle of the covenant. And when the were gone into it, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared.