Proverbs 28:15
Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a helpless people.
BSB
ASV
As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear, So is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
KJV
As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.
"A roaring lion and a ravenous bear," etc. It can be understood of pagan and heretical princes who often test the patience or wisdom of the poor people, that is, the holy Church, with savage cruelty.
As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear,.... Which are both terrible; the lion that roars for want of food, or when it is over its prey; and the hear, when it runs from place to place in quest of provision, being "hungry and very desirous" of food, has a keen appetite, as some think the word (l) signifies. The Targum and Jarchi take it to be expressive of the cry and roaring it makes at such a time, as well as the lion; see Isa 59:11; so the Tigurine version.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
1 Peter 5:8Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
leads to
Put on the full armor of God, so that you can make your stand against the devil’s schemes.
Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
and do not give the devil a foothold.
“Where have you come from?” said the LORD to Satan. “From roaming through the earth,” he replied, “and walking back and forth in it.”
Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
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Proverbs 20:2The terror of a king is like the roar of a lion; whoever provokes him forfeits his own life.
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A king’s rage is like the roar of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.
If the ruler’s temper flares against you, do not abandon your post, for calmness lays great offenses to rest.
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Exodus 1:22Then Pharaoh commanded all his people: “Every son born to the Hebrews you must throw into the Nile, but every daughter you may allow to live.”
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He exploited our people and oppressed our fathers, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.