Proverbs 28:15
A growling lion, and a ranging bear, [Is] the wicked ruler over a poor people.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.
In Context
14O the happiness of a man fearing continually, And whoso is hardening his heart falleth into evil.
Cross References
Exodus 1:14and make their lives bitter in hard service, in clay, and in brick, and in every [kind] of service in the field; all their service in which they have served [is] with rigour.
1 Samuel 22:17And the king saith to runners, those standing by him, 'Turn round, and put to death the priests of Jehovah, because their hand also [is] with David, and because they have known that he is fleeing, and have not uncovered mine ear;' and the servants of the king have not been willing to put forth their hand to come against the priests of Jehovah.
2 Kings 15:16Then doth Menahem smite Tiphsah, and all who [are] in it, and its borders from Tirzah, for it opened not [to him], and he smiteth [it], all its pregnant women he hath ripped up.
Esther 3:6and it is contemptible in his eyes to put forth a hand on Mordecai by himself, for they have declared to him the people of Mordecai, and Haman seeketh to destroy all the Jews who [are] in all the kingdom of Ahasuerus — the people of Mordecai.
Proverbs 19:12The wrath of a king [is] a growl as of a young lion, And as dew on the herb his good-will.
Isaiah 14:5Ceased hath the golden one. Broken hath Jehovah the staff of the wicked, The sceptre of rulers.
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 →