Proverbs 28:15
Like a roaring lion or a charging bear 1 is a wicked ruler over poor people. 1
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In The King James Version
As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.
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Cross References
Exodus 1:14They made their lives bitter with hard service with mortar and brick, and with all kinds of work in the fields. All their required work was hard.
1 Samuel 22:17The king said to the guard that stood around him, “Turn and kill the priests of Yahweh. Because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, but did not reveal it to me.” But the servants of the king would not put out their hand to kill the priests of Yahweh.
2 Kings 15:16Then Menahem attacked Tiphsah and all who were there, and the borders around Tirzah, because they did not open up the city to him. So he attacked it, and he ripped open all the pregnant women in that village. + 15:16 Instead of Tiphsah , one ancient version and some modern versions read, Tappuah .
Esther 3:6He had contempt for the idea of killing only Mordecai, for the king's servants had told him who Mordecai's people were. Haman wanted to exterminate all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, who were in the entire kingdom of Ahasuerus.
Proverbs 19:12The wrath of the king is like the roaring of a young lion, 1 but his favor is like dew on the grass. 1
Isaiah 14:5Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of those rulers, 1
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 28:15
14 Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief. Here is, 1. The benefit of a holy caution. It sounds strangely, but it is very true: Happy is the man that feareth always. Most people think that those are happy who never fear; but there is a fear which is so far from having torment in it that it has in it the greatest satisfaction. Happy is the man who always keeps up in his mind a holy awe and reverence of God, his glory, goodness, and government, who is always… Read the whole commentary →