As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.


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Proverbs 29 2 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
Psalms 17 12 Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
Proverbs 28 1 The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.
Proverbs 19 12 The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.
Job 12 19 He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty.
Isaiah 30 6 The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
Numbers 23 24 Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.
Proverbs 30 30 A lion which is strongest among beasts, and turneth not away for any;
Proverbs 28 3 A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
Revelation 13 2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
Isaiah 5 29 Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.
Jeremiah 5 6 Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.
Jeremiah 25 38 He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.
Psalms 10 2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
Job 4 11 The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.
Joel 1 6 For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.
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.
Psalms 34 10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.
Numbers 24 9 He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.
Proverbs 22 16 He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.
Job 12 21 He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty.
Proverbs 20 26 A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.
Amos 8 4 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
Daniel 8 23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.
Job 28 8 The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
Job 24 18 He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
Proverbs 26 13 The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.
Psalms 107 40 He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.
Isaiah 9 18 For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
Zephaniah 3 3 Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
Ecclesiastes 4 13 Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
Psalms 45 5 Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.
Proverbs 29 12 If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.
Hosea 12 7 He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
Isaiah 57 20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
Jeremiah 50 32 And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.
Job 36 15 He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.
Lamentations 3 10 He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
Jeremiah 4 7 The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
Proverbs 22 13 The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.
Genesis 49 9 Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
Psalms 76 12 He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings of the earth.
Psalms 73 8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.
Psalms 12 5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
Jeremiah 50 44 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?
Proverbs 14 31 He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.
Zechariah 11 3 There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.
Daniel 11 3 And a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will.
Psalms 10 9 He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
Amos 5 19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.