Proverbs 28:15New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— [Like] a roaring lion and a rushing bear Is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— [As] a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; [so is] a wicked ruler over the poor people.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— [As] a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; [so is] a wicked ruler over a poor people.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— [As] a roaring lion, and a ranging bear, [So is] a wicked ruler over a poor people.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— [As] a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; [so is] a wicked ruler over the poor people.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— A roaring lion, and a ranging bear, is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— A growling lion, and a ranging bear, is a lawless ruler, over a poor people.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— A growling lion, and a ranging bear, [Is] the wicked ruler over a poor people.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— As a roaring lion, and a hungry bear, so is a wicked prince over the poor people.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— As a roaring lyon, and an hungry beare, so is a wicked ruler ouer the poore people.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— [As] a roaring lyon and a ranging beare: so is a wicked ruler ouer the poore people.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— As a roaring lion and a raging bear, so is a wicked ruler over the poor.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— A hungry lion and a thirsty wolf [is he], who, being poor, rules over a poor nation.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— [As] a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; [so is] a wicked ruler over the poor people. |
[ As] a roaring
5098 {5098} Primeנָהַםnaham{naw-ham'}
A primitive root; to growl.
z8802 <8802> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Participle Active (See H8814) Count - 5386
lion,
738 {0738} Primeאַרִי'ariy{ar-ee'}
From H0717 (in the sense of violence); a lion.
and a ranging
8264 {8264} Primeשָׁקַקshaqaq{shaw-kak'}
A primitive root; to course (like a beast of prey); by implication to seek greedily.
z8802 <8802> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Participle Active (See H8814) Count - 5386
bear;
1677 {1677} Primeדֹּבdob{dobe}
From H1680; the bear (as slow).
[ so is] a wicked
7563 {7563} Primeרָשָׁעrasha`{raw-shaw'}
From H7561; morally wrong; concretely an (actively) bad person.
ruler
4910 {4910} Primeמָשַׁלmashal{maw-shal'}
A primitive root; to rule.
z8802 <8802> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Participle Active (See H8814) Count - 5386
over
x5921 (5921) Complementעַל`al{al}
Properly the same as H5920 used as a preposition (in the singular or plural, often with prefix, or as conjugation with a particle following); above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications.
the poor
1800 {1800} Primeדַּלdal{dal}
From H1809; properly dangling, that is, (by implication) weak or thin.
people.
5971 {5971} Primeעַם`am{am}
From H6004; a people (as a congregated unit); specifically a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively a flock. |
Proverbs 28:15
_ _ The rapacity and cruelty of such beasts well represent some wicked men (compare Psalms 7:2; Psalms 17:12). |
Proverbs 28:15
_ _ It is written indeed, Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people; but if he be a wicked ruler, that oppresses the people, especially the poor people, robbing them of the little they have and making a prey of them, whatever we may call him, this scripture calls him a roaring lion and a ranging bear. 1. In respect of his character. He is brutish, barbarous, and blood-thirsty; he is rather to be put among the beasts of prey, the wildest and most savage, than to be reckoned of that noble rank of beings whose glory is reason and humanity. 2. In respect of the mischief he does to his subjects. He is dreadful as the roaring lion, who makes the forest tremble; he is devouring as a hungry bear, and the more necessitous he is the more mischief he does and the more greedy of gain he is. |
Proverbs 28:15
[As] a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; [so is] (h) a wicked ruler over the poor people.
(h) For he can never be satisfied but always oppresses and spoils. |
- a roaring:
Proverbs 20:2 The fear of a king [is] as the roaring of a lion: [whoso] provoketh him to anger sinneth [against] his own soul.
Hosea 5:11 Ephraim [is] oppressed [and] broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.
1 Peter 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
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- a ranging:
Proverbs 17:12 Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.
2 Kings 2:24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.
Hosea 13:8 I will meet them as a bear [that is] bereaved [of her whelps], and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.
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Exodus 1:14-16 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, [was] with rigour. ... And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see [them] upon the stools; if it [be] a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it [be] a daughter, then she shall live.
Exodus 1:22 And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.
1 Samuel 22:17-19 And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD; because their hand also [is] with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not shew it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the LORD. ... And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
2 Kings 15:16 Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that [were] therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not [to him], therefore he smote [it; and] all the women therein that were with child he ripped up.
2 Kings 21:16 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD.
Esther 3:6-10 And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that [were] throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, [even] the people of Mordecai. ... And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy.
Matthew 2:16 Then Herod, when he saw 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, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men.
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