the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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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.
Like a loud-voiced lion and a wandering bear, is an evil 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.
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
sojourn in this land, and I am with thee, and bless thee, for to thee and to thy seed I give all these lands, and I have established the oath which I have sworn to Abraham thy father;
And Isaac sendeth away Jacob, and he goeth to Padan-Aram, unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramaean, brother of Rebekah, mother of Jacob and Esau.
And Esau seeth that Isaac hath blessed Jacob, and hath sent him to Padan-Aram to take to himself from thence a wife -- in his blessing him that he layeth a charge upon him, saying, Thou dost not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan --
that Jacob hearkeneth unto his father and unto his mother, and goeth to Padan-Aram --
and Esau seeth that the daughters of Canaan are evil in the eyes of Isaac his father,
and thy seed hath been as the dust of the land, and thou hast broken forth westward, and eastward, and northward, and southward, and all families of the ground have been blessed in thee and in thy seed.
And Jacob awaketh out of his sleep, and saith, `Surely Jehovah is in this place, and I knew not;'
And Jacob voweth a vow, saying, `Seeing God is with me, and hath kept me in this way which I am going, and hath given to me bread to eat, and a garment to put on --
when I have turned back in peace unto the house of my father, and Jehovah hath become my God,
And Jehovah saith unto Jacob, `Turn back unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred, and I am with thee.'
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.
