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Brenton's Septuagint
Proverbs 28:15
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A wicked ruler over a helpless peopleis like a roaring lion or a charging bear.
As a roaring lion or a charging bear, So is a wicked ruler over helpless people.
As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.
Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
Like a roaring lion and a rushing bear Is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
A wicked ruler is as dangerous to poor people as a roaring lion or a charging bear.
Like a roaring lion and a charging bear Is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
As a roaring lion or a charging bear, So is a wicked ruler over helpless people.
As a roaring lyon, and an hungry beare, so is a wicked ruler ouer the poore people.
Like a roaring lion and a rushing bearIs a wicked ruler over a poor people.
Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a helpless people.
A ruler who mistreats the poor is like a roaring lion or a bear hunting for food.
Like a roaring lion or a bear prowling for food is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
A roaring lion, and a ranging bear, is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
An evil ruler over those who are helpless is like an angry lion or a charging bear.
As a roaring lion and a raging bear, so is a wicked ruler over the poor.
Poor people are helpless against a wicked ruler; he is as dangerous as a growling lion or a prowling bear.
Like a roaring lion and a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
The wicked ruler is a roaring lion and a ranging bear over a poor people.
Like as a roaringe lyon and an hongrie beer, euen so is an vngodly prynce ouer the poore people.
As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear, So is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
Like a loud-voiced lion and a wandering bear, is an evil ruler over a poor people.
As a roaring lion, and a ravenous bear; so is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
As a roaring lyon and a ranging beare: so is a wicked ruler ouer the poore people.
As a roaring Lion and an hungrye Beare, so is an vngodly prince ouer the poore people.
As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
A rorynge lioun, and an hungry bere, is a wickid prince on a pore puple.
[As] a roaring lion, and a ranging bear, [So is] a wicked ruler over a poor people.
[As] a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; [so is] a wicked ruler over the poor people.
Like a roaring lion or a roving bear, so is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
Like a roaring lion and a charging bear Is a wicked ruler over poor people.
A wicked ruler is as dangerous to the poor as a roaring lion or an attacking bear.
A sinful ruler over poor people is like a lion making noise or a bear running to fight.
Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
A growling lion, and a ranging bear, is a lawless ruler, over a poor people.
As a roaring lion, and a hungry bear, so is a wicked prince over the poor people.
Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
A growling lion, and a ranging bear, [Is] the wicked ruler over a poor people.
Lions roar and bears charge— and the wicked lord it over the poor.
Like a roaring lion and a rushing bear Is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
a roaring: Proverbs 20:2, Hosea 5:11, 1 Peter 5:8
a ranging: Proverbs 17:12, 2 Kings 2:24, Hosea 13:8
so: Exodus 1:14-16, Exodus 1:22, 1 Samuel 22:17-19, 2 Kings 15:16, 2 Kings 21:16, Esther 3:6-10, Matthew 2:16
Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 22:16 - Thou shalt 1 Samuel 23:10 - destroy the city 2 Samuel 17:8 - as a bear Psalms 10:9 - when Psalms 57:4 - among Proverbs 19:12 - king's Ecclesiastes 4:1 - and considered Ecclesiastes 4:13 - is a poor Isaiah 33:6 - wisdom Ezekiel 19:7 - and the land Ezekiel 32:2 - Thou art like Daniel 2:13 - the decree Zephaniah 3:3 - princes 2 Timothy 4:17 - and I Revelation 13:2 - and his feet
Cross-References
And sojourn in this land; and I will be with thee, and bless thee, for I will give to thee and to thy seed all this land; and I will establish my oath which I swore to thy father Abraam.
So Isaac sent away Jacob, and he went into Mesopotamia to Laban the son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebecca the mother of Jacob and Esau.
And Esau saw that Isaac blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Mesopotamia of Syria as he blessed him, to take to himself a wife thence, and that he charged him, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of the Chananites;
and that Jacob hearkened to his father and his mother, and went to Mesopotamia of Syria.
And Esau also having seen that the daughters of Chanaan were evil before his father Isaac,
And thy seed shall be as the sand of the earth; and it shall spread abroad to the sea, and the south, and the north, and to the east; and in thee and in thy seed shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed.
And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and said, The Lord is in this place, and I knew it not.
And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If the Lord God will be with me, and guard me throughout on this journey, on which I am going, and give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,
and bring me back in safety to the house of my father, then shall the Lord be for a God to me.
And the Lord said to Jacob, Return to the land of thy father, and to thy family, and I will be with thee.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
[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 Isaiah 59:11; so the Tigurine version. "Roaring" is the proper epithet of a lion, and is frequently given it in Scripture, and in other writers m; and the bear, it is to have its name, in the Oriental language, from the growling and murmuring noise it makes when hungry; hence that of Horace n;
[so is] a wicked ruler over the poor people; one that rules over them in a tyrannical manner, sadly oppresses them, takes away the little from them they have, which is very cruel and barbarous; when he ought to protect and defend them, against whom they cannot stand, and whom they dare not resist; and who therefore must be as terrible to them, being as cruel and voracious as the above animals. Tyrants are frequently compared to lions, Jeremiah 4:7; and the man of sin, the wicked ruler and great oppressor of God's poor people, is compared to both; his feet are as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion, Revelation 13:2.
l שוקק "avidus", Pagninus, Montanus; "famelicus", Castalio, Schultens; "esuriens", V. L. Vatablus, Mercerus, Gejerus, Bochart; "adpetens", Michaelis. m "Leo fremit", Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 8. c. 16. "Spumat aper, fluit unda, fremit leo, sibilat anguis"; Licentius de Protheo. n "Nec vespertinus circumgemit ursus ovile", Epod. Ode 16. v. 51.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The form of political wretchedness, when the poverty of the oppressed subjects not only embitters their sufferings, but exasperates the brutal ferocity of the ruler.
