Proverbs 28:15

All About Life

¹⁴ Blessed is the one who fears the LORD always, but whoever hardens his heart will fall into calamity. ¹⁵ Like a roaring lion and a rushing bear
Is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
¹⁶ A ruler who lacks understanding is a cruel oppressor, but he who hates unjust gain will prolong his days.

Like a Roaring Lion

Matthew 2:16

Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, became furious, and he sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that region who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had ascertained from the wise men.

1 Peter 5:8

Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

Exodus 1:22

Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, "Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall cast into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live."

2 Kings 21:16

Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides the sin that he made Judah to sin so that they did what was evil in the sight of the LORD.

Exodus 1:14-16

and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field. In all their work they ruthlessly made them work as slaves.

1 Samuel 22:17-19

And the king said to the guard who stood about him, "Turn and kill the priests of the LORD, because their hand also is with David, and they knew that he fled and did not disclose it to me." But the servants of the king would not put out their hand to strike the priests of the LORD.

2 Kings 2:24

And he turned around, and when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of the LORD. And two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys.

2 Kings 15:16

At that time Menahem sacked Tiphsah and all who were in it and its territory from Tirzah on, because they did not open it to him. Therefore he sacked it, and he ripped open all the women in it who were pregnant.

Esther 3:6-10

But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone. So, as they had made known to him the people of Mordecai, Haman sought to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus.

Proverbs 19:12

A king's wrath is like the growling of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

Proverbs 20:2

The terror of a king is like the growling of a lion; whoever provokes him to anger forfeits his life.

Hosea 5:11

Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, because he was determined to go after filth.

Hosea 13:8

I will fall upon them like a bear robbed of her cubs; I will tear open their breast, and there I will devour them like a lion, as a wild beast would rip them open.

Proverbs 17:12

Let a man meet a she-bear robbed of her cubs rather than a fool in his folly.