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Selected Verse: Proverbs 28:15 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Pr 28:15 |
Strong Concordance |
As a roaring [05098] lion [0738], and a ranging [08264] bear [01677]; so is a wicked [07563] ruler [04910] over the poor [01800] people [05971]. |
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King James |
As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| The rapacity and cruelty of such beasts well represent some wicked men (compare Psa 7:2; Psa 17:12). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| 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. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
This general ethical proverb is now followed by one concerning the king:
15 A roaring lion and a ravening bear
Is a foolish ruler over a poor people,
i.e., a people without riches and possessions, without lasting sources of help - a people brought low by the events of war and by calamities. To such a people a tyrant is a twofold terror, like a ravenous monster. The lxx translate מושׁל רשׁע by ὃς τυραννεῖ πτωχὸς ὤν, as if רשׁ had been transferred to this place from Pro 28:3. But their translation of רשׁע, Pro 29:7, wavers between ἀσεβής and πτωχός, and of the bear they make a wolf זאב, dialectical דּיב. שׁוקק designates a bear as lingering about, running hither and thither, impelled by extreme hunger (Venet. ἐπιοῦσα), from שׁקק = שׁוּק, to drive, which is said of nimble running, as well as of urging impulses (cf. under Gen 3:16), viz., hunger. |
12 Like [01825] as a lion [0738] that is greedy [03700] of his prey [02963], and as it were a young lion [03715] lurking [03427] in secret places [04565].
2 Lest he tear [02963] my soul [05315] like a lion [0738], rending it in pieces [06561], while there is none to deliver [05337].
16 Unto the woman [0802] he said [0559], I will greatly [07235] multiply [07235] thy sorrow [06093] and thy conception [02032]; in sorrow [06089] thou shalt bring forth [03205] children [01121]; and thy desire [08669] shall be to thy husband [0376], and he shall rule [04910] over thee.
7 The righteous [06662] considereth [03045] the cause [01779] of the poor [01800]: but the wicked [07563] regardeth [0995] not to know [01847] it.
3 A poor [07326] man [01397] that oppresseth [06231] the poor [01800] is like a sweeping [05502] rain [04306] which leaveth no food [03899].