Proverbs 20:2

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Cross References

1 Kings 2:23

And so king Solomon swore by the Lord, saying: "May God do these things to me, and may he add these other things! For Adonijah has spoken this word against his own life.

1 Kings 2:24

And now, as the Lord lives, who has confirmed me and placed me upon the throne of my father David, and who, just as he said, has made a house for me: Adonijah shall be put to death this day."

Proverbs 19:12

Like the roaring of a lion, so also is the wrath of a king. And his cheerfulness is like the dew upon the grass.

Proverbs 8:36

But he who sins against me will wound his own soul. All who hate me love death."

Ecclesiastes 10:4

If the spirit of one who holds authority rises over you, do not leave your place, because attentiveness will cause the greatest sins to cease.

Hosea 11:10

They will walk after the Lord; he will roar like a lion. For he himself will roar, and the sons of the sea will dread.

Amos 3:8

The lion will roar, who will not fear? The Lord God has spoken, who will not prophesy?

Habakkuk 2:10

You have devised confusion for your house, you have cut to pieces many peoples, and your soul has sinned.

Numbers 16:38

in the deaths of these sinners. And let him form them into plates, and affix them to the altar, because incense had been offered in them to the Lord, and they were sanctified, and so that the sons of Israel may discern in them a sign and a memorial."