Proverbs 28:15

Catholic Public Domain Version

An impious leader over a poor people is like a roaring lion and a hungry bear.

Cross References

2 Kings 15:16

Then Menahem struck Tirzah, and all who were in it, and its borders around Tirzah. For they were not willing to open to him. And he killed all of its pregnant women, and he tore them open.

2 Kings 2:24

And when he had looked back, he saw them, and he cursed them in the name of the Lord. And two bears went out from the forest, and they wounded forty-two boys among them.

2 Kings 21:16

Moreover, Manasseh also has shed an exceedingly great amount of innocent blood, until he filled Jerusalem even to the mouth, aside from his sins by which he caused Judah to sin, so that they did evil before the Lord."

Exodus 1:13

And the Egyptians hated the sons of Israel, and they afflicted them and mocked them.

Exodus 1:22

Therefore, Pharaoh instructed all his people, saying: "Whatever will be born of the male sex, cast it into the river; whatever will be born of the female sex, retain it."

Proverbs 17:12

It is more expedient to meet a bear robbed of her young, than the foolish trusting in his own folly.

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 20:2

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

Proverbs 29:2

When just men are multiplied, the common people shall rejoice. When the impious take up the leadership, the people shall mourn.

Isaiah 14:5

The Lord has crushed the staff of the impious, the scepter of despots,

Isaiah 14:6

which struck the people in wrath with an incurable wound, which subjugated the nations in fury, which persecuted with cruelty.

Hosea 13:8

I will run to meet them like a bear that has been robbed of her young, and I will split open the middle of their liver. And I will devour them there like a lion; the beast of the field will tear them apart.

Hosea 5:11

Ephraim has been enduring malicious slander and broken judgment, because he began to go after filth.

Zephaniah 3:3

Her leaders are in her midst like roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves; they leave nothing for the morning.

Matthew 2:16

Then Herod, seeing that he had been fooled by the Magi, was very angry. And so he sent to kill all the boys who were in Bethlehem, and in all its borders, from two years of age and under, according to the time that he had learned by questioning the Magi.

1 Peter 5:8

Be sober and vigilant. For your adversary, the devil, is like a roaring lion, traveling around and seeking those whom he might devour.