Proverbs 20:2 - 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.

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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.

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.

English Standard Version 2016

² The terror of a king is like the growling of a lion; whoever provokes him to anger forfeits his life.

Proverbs 20:2 Tagairtí Cros

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."