Proverbs 28:15

All About Life

¹⁴ Happy is the man in whom is the fear of the Lord at all times; but he whose heart is hard will come into trouble. ¹⁵ Like a loud-voiced lion and a wandering bear, is an evil ruler over a poor people. ¹⁶ The prince who has no sense is a cruel ruler; but he who has no desire to get profit for himself will have long life.

Like a Roaring Lion

Matthew 2:16

Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, was very angry; and he sent out, and put to death all the male children in Beth-lehem and in all the parts round about it, from two years old and under, acting on the knowledge which he had got with care from the wise men.

1 Peter 5:8

Be serious and keep watch; the Evil One, who is against you, goes about like a lion with open mouth in search of food;

Exodus 1:22

And Pharaoh gave orders to all his people, saying, Every son who comes to birth is to be put into the river, but every daughter may go on living.

2 Kings 21:16

More than this, Manasseh took the lives of upright men, till Jerusalem from one end to the other was full of blood; in addition to his sin in making Judah do evil in the eyes of the Lord.

Exodus 1:14-16

And made their lives bitter with hard work, making building-material and bricks, and doing all sorts of work in the fields under the hardest conditions.

1 Samuel 22:17-19

Then the king said to the runners who were waiting near him, Put the priests of the Lord to death; because they are on David's side, and having knowledge of his flight, did not give me word of it. But the king's servants would not put out their hands to make an attack on the Lord's priests.

2 Kings 2:24

And turning back, he saw them, and put a curse on them in the name of the Lord. And two she-bears came out of the wood and put forty-two of the children to death.

2 Kings 15:16

Then Menahem sent destruction on Tappuah and all the people in it, and its limits, from Tirzah, because they would not let him come in; and he had all the women who were with child cut open.

Esther 3:6-10

But it was not enough for him to make an attack on Mordecai only; for they had made clear to him who Mordecai's people were; so Haman made it his purpose to put an end to all the Jews, even Mordecai's people, through all the kingdom of Ahasuerus.

Proverbs 19:12

The king's wrath is like the loud cry of a lion, but his approval is like dew on the grass.

Proverbs 20:2

The wrath of a king is like the loud cry of a lion: he who makes him angry does wrong against himself.

Hosea 5:11

Ephraim is troubled; he is crushed by his judges, because he took pleasure in walking after deceit.

Hosea 13:8

I will come face to face with them like a bear whose young ones have been taken from her, and their inmost hearts will be broken; there the dogs will make a meal of them; they will be wounded by the beasts of the field.

Proverbs 17:12

It is better to come face to face with a bear whose young ones have been taken away than with a foolish man acting foolishly.