Proverbs 28:15

All About Life

¹⁴ Blessed is the man dreading God, but he who hardens his heart shall fall into mischief. ¹⁵ Like a roaring lion and a ranging bear, so is a wicked ruler over the helpless people. ¹⁶ A ruler lacking understanding even adds oppressions; he who hates unjust gain shall prolong his days.

Like a Roaring Lion

Matthew 2:16

Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was greatly enraged. And he sent and killed all the boys in Bethlehem, and in all its districts, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had carefully inquired of the wise men.

1 Peter 5:8

Be sensible and vigilant, because your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking someone he may devour;

Exodus 1:22

And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born you shall cast into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.

2 Kings 21:16

And also Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing the evil in the sight of Jehovah.

Exodus 1:14-16

And they made their lives bitter with hard work in mortar and in bricks, and in all kinds of work in the field; all their work in which they made them do was with harshness.

1 Samuel 22:17-19

And the king said to the guard that stood around him, Turn and kill the priests of Jehovah, because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not reveal it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall on the priests of Jehovah.

2 Kings 2:24

And he turned behind him and saw them, and declared them vile in the name of Jehovah. And two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two boys of them.

2 Kings 15:16

Then Menahem struck Tiphsah, and all in it, and its borders, from Tirzah. Because they did not open, he struck it. He ripped up all its pregnant women.

Esther 3:6-10

And he scorned to lay hands only on Mordecai, for they had revealed to him the people of Mordecai. And Haman sought to destroy all the Jews throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, the people of Mordecai.

Proverbs 19:12

The king's wrath is like the roaring of a lion; but his favor is like dew on the grass.

Proverbs 20:2

The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion; whoever stirs him up to anger sins against his own soul.

Hosea 5:11

Ephraim is crushed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.

Hosea 13:8

I will meet them like a bereaved bear, and will tear the lining of their heart. And there I will devour them like a lion; the wild beast shall tear them.

Proverbs 17:12

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