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New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.
Holman Bible
is like a roaring lion or a charging bear.
International Standard Version
A roaring lion and a charging bear that's what a wicked tyrant is over poor people.
A Conservative Version
A roaring lion, and a ranging bear, [is] a wicked ruler over a poor people.
American Standard Version
As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear,'so is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
Amplified
Like a roaring lion and a charging bear
Is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
Bible in Basic English
Like a loud-voiced lion and a wandering bear, is an evil ruler over a poor people.
Darby Translation
A roaring lion, and a ranging bear, is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
Julia Smith Translation
A roaring lion and a greedy bear the unjust one ruling over a poor people.
King James 2000
As a roaring lion, and a charging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[Like] a roaring lion and a charging bear [is] a wicked ruler over a poor people.
Modern King James verseion
Like a roaring lion and a ranging bear, so is a wicked ruler over the helpless people.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Like as a roaring lion and a hungry bear, even so is an ungodly prince over the poor people.
NET Bible
Like a roaring lion or a roving bear, so is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
New Heart English Bible
As a roaring lion or a charging bear, so is a wicked ruler over helpless people.
The Emphasized Bible
A growling lion, and a ranging bear, is a lawless ruler, over a poor people.
Webster
As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.
World English Bible
As a roaring lion or a charging bear, so is a wicked ruler over helpless people.
Youngs Literal Translation
A growling lion, and a ranging bear, Is the wicked ruler over a poor people.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 28:15
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Context Readings
All About Life
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Blessed is the man that fears God always, but he that hardens his heart shall fall into evil.
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Cross References
Matthew 2:16
Then Herod, seeing that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth and sent forth and killed all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the borders thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had understood of the wise men.
1 Peter 5:8
Be temperate and vigilant because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour,
Exodus 1:22
Then Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall give them their lives.
2 Kings 21:16
Moreover, Manasseh shed innocent blood very much until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another besides his sin with which he made Judah sin so that they would do that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.
Exodus 1:14-16
and they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, making mortar and brick and in all manner of service in the field; all their service, in which they made them serve, was with rigor.
1 Samuel 22:17-19
Then the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn and slay the priests of the LORD because their hand also is with David and because they knew when he fled and did not show it to me. But the slaves of the king would not put forth their hands to fall upon the priests of the LORD.
2 Kings 2:24
And he turned back and looked on them and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And two bears came forth out of the forest and tore apart forty-two young men of them.
2 Kings 15:16
Then Menahem smote Tiphsah and all that were therein and the borders thereof from Tirzah because they had not opened to him, therefore, he smote it; and all the women therein that were with child he ripped up.
Esther 3:6-10
And he thought it a small matter to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for now they had declared unto him the people of Mordecai; therefore, Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, the people of Mordecai.
Proverbs 19:12
The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion, but his favour is as dew upon the grass.
Proverbs 20:2
The fear of the king is as the roaring of a lion; whoever provokes him to anger sins against his own soul.
Hosea 5:11
Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment because he wanted to walk after commandments.
Hosea 13:8
I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps and will rend the veil of their heart, and there I will devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them apart.
Proverbs 17:12
It is better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool in his folly.