the Week of Proper 23 / Ordinary 28
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Proverbs 28:15
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A wicked ruler is as dangerous to the poor as a roaring lion or an attacking bear.
[As] a roaring lion, and a ranging bear, [So 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.
[As] a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; [so is] a wicked ruler over the poor people.
As a roaring lion or a charging bear, So is a wicked ruler over helpless people.
Like a roaring lion and a charging bear Is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
Like a roaring lion or a charging bear 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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
As a roaring lyon, and an hungry beare, so is a wicked ruler ouer the poore people.
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.
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.
As a roaring Lion and an hungrye Beare, so is an vngodly prince ouer the poore people.
A sluggard having hid his hand in his bosom, will not be able to bring it up to his mouth.
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 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.
A growling lion, and a ranging bear, [Is] the wicked ruler over a poor people.
Like as a roaringe lyon and an hongrie beer, euen so is an vngodly prynce ouer the poore 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.
Like a roaring lion and a charging bear Is a wicked ruler over poor people.
Like a roaring lion and a rushing bear Is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
Like a roaring lion and a rushing bearIs 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
Stay in this land. Then I will be with you and will bless you, for I will give all these lands to you and to your descendants, and I will fulfill the solemn promise I made to your father Abraham.
So Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean and brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.
Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him off to Paddan Aram to find a wife there. As he blessed him, Isaac commanded him, "You must not marry a Canaanite woman."
Jacob obeyed his father and mother and left for Paddan Aram.
Then Esau realized that the Canaanite women were displeasing to his father Isaac.
Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west, east, north, and south. All the families of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using your name and that of your descendants.
Then Jacob woke up and thought, "Surely the Lord is in this place, but I did not realize it!"
Then Jacob made a vow, saying, "If God is with me and protects me on this journey I am taking and gives me food to eat and clothing to wear,
and I return safely to my father's home, then the Lord will become my God.
The Lord said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers and to your relatives. I will be with you."
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.
