Proverbs 28:15 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

¹⁵ As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the 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

Then Men´ahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not to him, therefore he smote it; and all the women therein that were with child he ripped up.

2 Kings 2:24

And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.

2 Kings 21:16

Moreover Manas´seh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; besides his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the Lord.

Exodus 1:13

And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigor:

Exodus 1:22

And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.

Proverbs 17:12

Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.

Proverbs 19:12

The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favor is as dew upon the grass.

Proverbs 20:2

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

Proverbs 29:2

When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.

Isaiah 14:5

The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.

Isaiah 14:6

He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.

Hosea 13:8

I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.

Hosea 5:11

E´phra-im is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.

Zephaniah 3:3

Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.

Matthew 2:16

Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.

1 Peter 5:8

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: