Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Like as a roaring lion and a hungry bear, even so is an ungodly prince over the poor people.
New American Standard Bible
Is a
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.
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.
Topics
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 28:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
All About Life
14 Well is him that standeth always in awe; as for him that hardeneth his heart, he shall fall into mischief. 15 Like as a roaring lion and a hungry bear, even so is an ungodly prince over the poor people. 16 Where the prince is without understanding, there is great oppression and wrong; but if he be such one as hateth covetousness, he shall long reign.
Phrases
Cross References
Matthew 2:16
Then Herod, perceiving that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, as many as were two years old and under according to the time which he had diligently searched out of the wise men.
1 Peter 5:8
Be sober, and watch. For your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Exodus 1:22
Then Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, "All the men children that are born, cast into the river; and save the maid children alive."
2 Kings 21:16
And thereto Manasseh shed innocent blood exceeding abundantly, in so much that he replenished Jerusalem in all corners, beside his sin wherewith he made Judah sin and to do evil in the sight of the LORD.
Exodus 1:14-16
and made their lives bitter unto them with cruel labour in clay and brick, and all manner work in the fields, and in all manner of service, which they caused them to work cruelly.
1 Samuel 22:17-19
Then said the king unto his footmen that stood about him, "Turn and slay the priests of the LORD, both because their hand is with David and because they knew when David fled and showed it not to me." But the servants of the king would not move their hands, to run 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 there came two bears out of the wood and tare forty two of the boys.
2 Kings 15:16
The same time, Menahem destroyed Tappuah, and all that were therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah - because they opened not to him - he smote, and rent all the women with child.
Esther 3:6-10
and thought it too little to lay hands only on Mordecai: for they had showed him the nation of Mordecai. Wherefore, he sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole empire of Ahasuerus and were of the nation of Mordecai.
Proverbs 19:12
The king's disfavor is like the roaring of a Lion, but his friendship is like the dew upon the grass.
Proverbs 20:2
The king ought to be feared as the roaring of a lion; whoso provoketh him unto anger, offendeth against his own soul.
Hosea 5:11
Ephraim is oppressed, and can have no right of the law. For why? They follow the doctrines of men.
Hosea 13:8
I will come upon them as a she bear, that is robbed of her whelps, and I will break that stubborn heart of theirs. There will I devour them as a lion: yea the wild beast shall tear them.
Proverbs 17:12
It were better to come against a she Bear robbed of her whelps, than against a fool in his foolishness.