Proverbs 28:15

World English Bible (2000)

As a roaring lion or a charging bear, so is a wicked ruler over helpless people.

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  • Matt 2:16 : 16 Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.
  • 1 Pet 5:8 : 8 Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
  • 2 Kgs 21:16 : 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 to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh.
  • Exod 1:22 : 22 Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, "You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive."
  • 1 Sam 22:17-19 : 17 The king said to the guard who stood about him, "Turn, and kill the priests of Yahweh; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and didn't disclose it to me." But the servants of the king wouldn't put forth their hand to fall on the priests of Yahweh. 18 The king said to Doeg, "Turn and attack the priests!" Doeg the Edomite turned, and he attacked the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five people who wore a linen ephod. 19 He struck Nob, the city of the priests, with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and nursing babies, and cattle and donkeys and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
  • 2 Kgs 2:24 : 24 He looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in the name of Yahweh. Two female bears came out of the woods, and mauled forty-two of those youths.
  • 2 Kgs 15:16 : 16 Then Menahem struck Tiphsah, and all who were therein, and its borders, from Tirzah: because they didn't open to him, therefore he struck it; and all the women therein who were with child he ripped up.
  • Prov 19:12 : 12 The king's wrath is like the roaring of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.
  • Prov 20:2 : 2 The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.
  • Hos 5:11 : 11 Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; Because he is intent in his pursuit of idols.
  • Hos 13:8 : 8 I will meet them like a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, and will tear the covering of their heart. There I will devour them like a lioness. The wild animal will tear them.
  • Esth 3:6-9 : 6 But he scorned the thought of laying hands on Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him Mordecai's people. Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even Mordecai's people. 7 In the first month, which is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, and chose the twelfth month, which is the month Adar. 8 Haman said to King Ahasuerus, "There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are different than other people's. They don't keep the king's laws. Therefore it is not for the king's profit to allow them to remain. 9 If it pleases the king, let it be written that they be destroyed; and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who are in charge of the king's business, to bring it into the king's treasuries." 10 The king took his ring from his hand, and gave it to Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy.
  • Exod 1:14-16 : 14 and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve. 15 The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah, 16 and he said, "When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool; if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live."
  • Prov 17:12 : 12 Let a bear robbed of her cubs meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 28:16
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    16A tyrannical ruler lacks judgment. One who hates ill-gotten gain will have long days.

  • Prov 20:2
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    2The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.

  • Prov 28:1-3
    3 verses
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    1The wicked flee when no one pursues; but the righteous are as bold as a lion.

    2In rebellion, a land has many rulers, but order is maintained by a man of understanding and knowledge.

    3A needy man who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.

  • Ps 10:8-10
    3 verses
    75%

    8He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.

    9He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net.

    10The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his strength.

  • Prov 29:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    1He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

    2When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice; but when the wicked rule, the people groan.

  • Ps 17:12
    75%

    12He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

  • Jer 25:38
    73%

    38He has left his covert, as the lion; for their land is become an astonishment because of the fierceness of the oppressing [sword], and because of his fierce anger.

  • Prov 22:16
    73%

    16Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

  • Prov 14:31
    73%

    31He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

  • Isa 5:29-30
    2 verses
    73%

    29Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like young lions. Yes, they shall roar, and seize their prey and carry it off, and there will be no one to deliver.

    30They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.

  • Ps 22:13
    73%

    13They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.

  • Eccl 10:5
    73%

    5There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, the sort of error which proceeds from the ruler.

  • Lam 3:10
    73%

    10He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.

  • Ps 10:2
    73%

    2In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

  • Prov 22:7
    72%

    7The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.

  • Prov 28:14
    72%

    14Blessed is the man who always fears; but one who hardens his heart falls into trouble.

  • Prov 29:14
    72%

    14The king who fairly judges the poor, his throne shall be established forever.

  • Prov 30:30-31
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    72%

    30The lion, which is mightiest among animals, and doesn't turn away for any;

    31the greyhound, the male goat also; and the king against whom there is no rising up.

  • Isa 3:5
    72%

    5The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.

  • Jer 2:15
    72%

    15The young lions have roared at him, and yelled. They have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.

  • Prov 17:11-12
    2 verses
    71%

    11An evil man seeks only rebellion; therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.

    12Let a bear robbed of her cubs meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.

  • Num 23:24
    71%

    24Behold, the people rises up as a lioness, As a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain."

  • Ps 37:14
    71%

    14The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright in the way.

  • Prov 19:12
    71%

    12The king's wrath is like the roaring of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

  • Job 4:10-11
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    71%

    10The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

    11The old lion perishes for lack of prey. The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad.

  • Prov 16:14
    71%

    14The king's wrath is a messenger of death, but a wise man will pacify it.

  • Prov 29:12
    71%

    12If a ruler listens to lies, all of his officials are wicked.

  • Ps 140:11
    71%

    11An evil speaker won't be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

  • Prov 29:7
    71%

    7The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren't concerned about knowledge.

  • Prov 10:15
    71%

    15The rich man's wealth is his strong city. The destruction of the poor is their poverty.

  • Nah 2:11-12
    2 verses
    71%

    11Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked, the lion's cubs, and no one made them afraid?

    12The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill, and his dens with prey.

  • Zeph 3:3
    71%

    3Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.

  • Prov 14:28
    71%

    28In the multitude of people is the king's glory, but in the lack of people is the destruction of the prince.

  • Prov 29:22
    70%

    22An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.

  • Ezek 19:7
    70%

    7He knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and its fullness, because of the noise of his roaring.

  • Job 15:20
    70%

    20the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

  • Ps 107:40
    70%

    40He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.

  • Hos 13:7
    70%

    7Therefore I am like a lion to them. Like a leopard, I will lurk by the path.

  • Joel 1:6
    70%

    6For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness.

  • Prov 26:13
    70%

    13The sluggard says, "There is a lion in the road! A fierce lion roams the streets!"