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Proverbs 28:15
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A wicked ruler over a helpless peopleis like a roaring lion or a charging bear.
As a roaring lion or a charging bear, So is a wicked ruler over helpless people.
As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.
Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
Like a roaring lion and a rushing bear Is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
A wicked ruler is as dangerous to poor people as a roaring lion or a charging bear.
Like a roaring lion and a charging bear Is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
As a roaring lion or a charging bear, So is a wicked ruler over helpless people.
As a roaring lyon, and an hungry beare, so is a wicked ruler ouer the poore people.
Like a roaring lion and a rushing bearIs a wicked ruler over a poor people.
Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a helpless people.
A ruler who mistreats the poor is like a roaring lion or a bear hunting for food.
Like a roaring lion or a bear prowling for food is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
A roaring lion, and a ranging bear, is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
An evil ruler over those who are helpless is like an angry lion or a charging bear.
As a roaring lion and a raging bear, so is a wicked ruler over the poor.
Poor people are helpless against a wicked ruler; he is as dangerous as a growling lion or a prowling bear.
Like a roaring lion and a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
The wicked ruler is a roaring lion and a ranging bear over a poor people.
Like as a roaringe lyon and an hongrie beer, euen so is an vngodly prynce ouer the poore people.
As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear, So is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
As a roaring lion, and a ravenous bear; so is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
As a roaring lyon and a ranging beare: so is a wicked ruler ouer the poore people.
As a roaring Lion and an hungrye Beare, so is an vngodly prince ouer the poore people.
A sluggard having hid his hand in his bosom, will not be able to bring it up to his mouth.
As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
A rorynge lioun, and an hungry bere, is a wickid prince on a pore puple.
[As] a roaring lion, and a ranging bear, [So is] a wicked ruler over a poor people.
[As] a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; [so is] a wicked ruler over the poor people.
Like a roaring lion or a roving bear, so is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
Like a roaring lion and a charging bear Is a wicked ruler over poor people.
A wicked ruler is as dangerous to the poor as a roaring lion or an attacking bear.
A sinful ruler over poor people is like a lion making noise or a bear running to fight.
Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
A growling lion, and a ranging bear, is a lawless ruler, over a poor people.
As a roaring lion, and a hungry bear, so is a wicked prince over the poor people.
Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
A growling lion, and a ranging bear, [Is] the wicked ruler over a poor people.
Lions roar and bears charge— and the wicked lord it over the poor.
Like a roaring lion and a rushing bear Is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
a roaring: Proverbs 20:2, Hosea 5:11, 1 Peter 5:8
a ranging: Proverbs 17:12, 2 Kings 2:24, Hosea 13:8
so: Exodus 1:14-16, Exodus 1:22, 1 Samuel 22:17-19, 2 Kings 15:16, 2 Kings 21:16, Esther 3:6-10, Matthew 2:16
Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 22:16 - Thou shalt 1 Samuel 23:10 - destroy the city 2 Samuel 17:8 - as a bear Psalms 10:9 - when Psalms 57:4 - among Proverbs 19:12 - king's Ecclesiastes 4:1 - and considered Ecclesiastes 4:13 - is a poor Isaiah 33:6 - wisdom Ezekiel 19:7 - and the land Ezekiel 32:2 - Thou art like Daniel 2:13 - the decree Zephaniah 3:3 - princes 2 Timothy 4:17 - and I Revelation 13:2 - and his feet
Cross-References
Keep in this land, and I will be with you and give you my blessing; for to you and to your seed will I give all these lands, giving effect to the oath which I made to your father Abraham;
So Isaac sent Jacob away: and he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramaean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.
So when Esau saw that Isaac had given Jacob his blessing, and sent him away to Paddan-aram to get a wife for himself there, blessing him and saying to him, Do not take a wife from among the women of Canaan;
And that Jacob had done as his father and mother said and had gone to Paddan-aram;
It was clear to Esau that his father had no love for the women of Canaan,
Your seed will be like the dust of the earth, covering all the land to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south: you and your seed will be a name of blessing to all the families of the earth.
And Jacob, awaking from his sleep, said, Truly, the Lord is in this place and I was not conscious of it.
Then Jacob took an oath, and said, If God will be with me, and keep me safe on my journey, and give me food and clothing to put on,
So that I come again to my father's house in peace, then I will take the Lord to be my God,
Then the Lord said to Jacob, Go back to the land of your fathers, and to your relations, and I will be with you.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
[As] a roaring lion, and a ranging bear,.... Which are both terrible; the lion that roars for want of food, or when it is over its prey; and the hear, when it runs from place to place in quest of provision, being "hungry [and very] desirous" of food, has a keen appetite, as some think the word l signifies. The Targum and Jarchi take it to be expressive of the cry and roaring it makes at such a time, as well as the lion; see Isaiah 59:11; so the Tigurine version. "Roaring" is the proper epithet of a lion, and is frequently given it in Scripture, and in other writers m; and the bear, it is to have its name, in the Oriental language, from the growling and murmuring noise it makes when hungry; hence that of Horace n;
[so is] a wicked ruler over the poor people; one that rules over them in a tyrannical manner, sadly oppresses them, takes away the little from them they have, which is very cruel and barbarous; when he ought to protect and defend them, against whom they cannot stand, and whom they dare not resist; and who therefore must be as terrible to them, being as cruel and voracious as the above animals. Tyrants are frequently compared to lions, Jeremiah 4:7; and the man of sin, the wicked ruler and great oppressor of God's poor people, is compared to both; his feet are as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion, Revelation 13:2.
l שוקק "avidus", Pagninus, Montanus; "famelicus", Castalio, Schultens; "esuriens", V. L. Vatablus, Mercerus, Gejerus, Bochart; "adpetens", Michaelis. m "Leo fremit", Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 8. c. 16. "Spumat aper, fluit unda, fremit leo, sibilat anguis"; Licentius de Protheo. n "Nec vespertinus circumgemit ursus ovile", Epod. Ode 16. v. 51.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The form of political wretchedness, when the poverty of the oppressed subjects not only embitters their sufferings, but exasperates the brutal ferocity of the ruler.
