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Proverbs 28:15

As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.

KJV

Leo rugiens et ursus esuriens, princeps impius super populum pauperem.

Vulgate

λέων πεινῶν καὶ λύκος διψῶν ὃς τυραννεῖ πτωχὸς ὢν ἔθνους πενιχροῦ.

LXX

Asa roaring lion, and a ranging bear, So isa wicked ruler over a poor people.

ASV

אֲרִי נֹ֭הֵם וְ/דֹ֣ב שׁוֹקֵ֑ק מֹשֵׁ֥ל רָ֝שָׁ֗ע עַ֣ל עַם דָּֽל

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

9 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אַרְיֵה֙
'ryh
noun · 81×
דַּלִּ֔ים
dlym
adjective · 47×
דֻּבִּים֙
dbym
noun · 12×
י
y
noun · 1849×
מוֹשֵׁ֖ל
mvshl
verb · 82×
נְהַמְתֶּ֖ם
nhmtm
verb · 5×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×
רְשָׁעִ֣ים
rsh'ym
adjective · 257×
שׁוֹקֵקָ֑ה
shvqqh
verb · 6×

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Pet 5:8 — Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
  • 1Sam 22:16 — And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father’s house.
  • 1Sam 22:17 — And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD: because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not shew it to me. B
  • 2Kgs 2:24 — And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.
  • 2Kgs 21:16 — Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the L
  • 2Tim 4:17 — Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
  • Eccl 4:1 — So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was
  • Eccl 4:13 — Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
  • Exod 1:14 — And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
  • Exod 1:22 — And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.
  • Isa 33:6 — And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure.
  • Matt 2:16 — Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and
  • Matt 2:16 — Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and
  • Prov 19:12 — The king’s wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.
  • Prov 19:12 — The king’s wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.
  • Prov 20:2 — The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.