Proverbs 20:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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

Then king Solomon sware by the LORD, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah have not spoken this word against his own life.

1 Kings 2:24

Now therefore as the LORD liveth, who hath established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who hath made me an house, as he promised, surely Adonijah shall be put to death this day.

Proverbs 19:12

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

Proverbs 8:36

But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: All they that hate me love death.

Ecclesiastes 10:4

If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding allayeth great offences.

Hosea 11:10

They shall walk after the LORD, who shall roar like a lion: for he shall roar, and the children shall come trembling from the west.

Amos 3:8

The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GODhath spoken, who can but prophesy?

Habakkuk 2:10

Thou hast consulted shame to thy house, by cutting off many peoples, and hast sinned against thy soul.

Numbers 16:38

even the censers of these sinners against their own lives, and let them be made beaten plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are holy: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.