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Proverbs 28:1

Wicked people run away even when no one is pursuing them, but righteous/good people are not afraid; they are as brave as lions.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.

In Context

2When the people of a nation sin, they will have one ruler after another; but when their leaders are wise and have good sense, their government will last for a long time.

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Cross References

Exodus 11:8Then all these officials of yours will come and bow down before me and will say, “Please get out of Egypt, you and all the Israeli people!”’ After that, I will leave Egypt!” After Moses/I said that, he/I very angrily left the king.

Leviticus 26:36“As for you people who will remain alive in the countries to which your enemies will have taken you, I will cause you to become so afraid that when you hear the sound of leaves being blown by the wind, you will run away. You will run like [SIM] you are running from a man carrying a sword, and you will fall down, even though no one is pursuing you.

Deuteronomy 28:25Yahweh will enable your enemies to defeat you; your soldiers will attack your enemies from one direction, but they will run away from your enemies in seven/many directions, and when the people of other nations see what is happening to you, they will say that it is horrible.

2 Kings 7:6What had happened was that Yahweh had caused the army of Syria to hear something that sounded like a large army marching with chariots and horses. So they said to each other, “Listen! The king of Israel has hired the kings of Egypt and the Heth people-group and their armies, and they have come to attack us!”

2 Kings 7:15They went as far as the Jordan River. All along the road they saw clothes and equipment that the soldiers from Syria had thrown away while they were running away very quickly. So the men returned to the king and reported what they had seen.

Job 15:21They constantly hear sounds that terrify them; while they are prospering, bandits attack them.

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