Proverbs 20:2 - Tree of Life Version

² The terror of a king is like a lion’s growl. Whoever provokes him endangers his 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.

Proverbs 20:2 Tagairtí Cros

1 Kings 2:23

Then King Solomon swore by Adonai saying: “May God do so to me and even more, if Adonijah does not pay with his own life for this request!

1 Kings 2:24

Now therefore, as Adonai lives who has established me and set me on the throne of my father David, and who has made me a house as He promised, surely Adonijah shall be put to death this day.”

Proverbs 19:12

A king’s wrath is like a roaring lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

Proverbs 8:36

But whoever fails to find me harms his life— all who hate me love death.”

Ecclesiastes 10:4

If a ruler’s spirit rises up against you, do not leave your post, for composure allays great offences.

Hosea 11:10

They will walk after Adonai. He will roar like a lion. Indeed, He will roar and the children will come trembling from the west.

Amos 3:8

A lion has roared, who will not fear? My Lord Adonai has spoken, who shall not prophesy?

Habakkuk 2:10

You schemed shame for your house, by cutting off many peoples, so going wrong yourself.

Numbers 16:38

As for the censers of these men who sinned at the cost of their lives, let them be taken and hammered into sheets as a covering for the altar. For they were presented before Adonai, so they are holy. They are to be a sign to Bnei-Yisrael.”