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


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Genesis 16 12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
Genesis 43 1 And the famine was sore in the land.
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?
Genesis 49 27 Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
Leviticus 26 22 I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.
Numbers 16 13 Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us?
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.
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.
Numbers 24 19 Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and shall destroy him that remaineth of the city.
Numbers 32 15 For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people.
Deuteronomy 21 20 And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.
Deuteronomy 28 18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
1 Samuel 8 9 Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.
1 Samuel 12 25 But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king.
1 Samuel 17 34 And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:
1 Samuel 17 36 Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.
1 Samuel 24 13 As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.
2 Samuel 17 10 And he also that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, shall utterly melt: for all Israel knoweth that thy father is a mighty man, and they which be with him are valiant men.
2 Samuel 22 28 And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.
1 Kings 13 24 And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the carcase.
1 Kings 20 36 Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice of the LORD, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall slay thee. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and slew him.
2 Kings 17 25 And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which slew some of them.
Nehemiah 5 15 But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.
Job 3 14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build desolate places for themselves;
Job 4 8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
Job 4 10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
Job 4 11 The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.
Job 5 3 I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
Job 5 15 But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
Job 10 16 For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
Job 12 17 He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.
Job 12 19 He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty.
Job 12 21 He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty.
Job 15 21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
Job 15 24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
Job 20 22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
Job 21 17 How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.
Job 24 5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.
Job 24 14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
Job 24 18 He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
Job 24 21 He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.
Job 24 22 He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.
Job 27 7 Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.
Job 28 8 The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
Job 28 11 He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.
Job 34 8 Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
Job 34 18 Is it fit to say to a king, Thou art wicked? and to princes, Ye are ungodly?
Job 34 19 How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.
Job 35 9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
Job 36 6 He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.