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Proverbs 28:15

Proverbs chapter 28 · verse 15 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.14Happy is the man that feareth alway; But he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.

v.15This passage

v.16The prince that lacketh understanding is also a great oppressor; Buthe that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Hosea 5:11

    Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; because he was content to walk after man’s command.

  • 2 Kings 2:24

    And he looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in the name of Jehovah. And there came forth two she-bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two lads of them.

  • Matthew 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 male children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the borders thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had exactly learned of the Wise-men.

  • 2 Kings 15:16

    Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the borders thereof, from Tirzah: because they opened not to him, therefore he smote it; and all the women therein that were with child he ripped up.

  • Proverbs 20:2

    The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion: He that provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own life.

  • Hosea 13:8

    I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart; and there will I devour them like a lioness; the wild beast shall tear them.