Proverbs 20:2
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Anger Angry Causing Cry Dread Fear Forfeits Growl Growling King's Lion Makes Provokes Provoketh Roar Roaring Sinneth Soul Terror Wrath Wrong Wronging Wroth Young
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English Standard Version
The terror of a king is like the growling of a lion; whoever provokes him to anger forfeits his life.

New American Standard Bible
The terror of a king is like the growling of a lion; He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.

King James Bible
The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
A king's terrible wrath is like the roaring of a lion; anyone who provokes him endangers himself.

International Standard Version
A king's anger is like a lion's roar; anyone who angers him forfeits his life.

NET Bible
The king's terrifying anger is like the roar of a lion; whoever provokes him sins against himself.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
The wrath of the King roars like a lion and he that angers him sins against himself.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The rage of a king is like the roar of a lion. Whoever makes him angry forfeits his life.

King James 2000 Bible
The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whosoever provokes him to anger sins against his own life.

American King James Version
The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoever provokes him to anger sins against his own soul.

American Standard Version
The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion: He that provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own life.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As the roaring of a lion, so also is the dread of a king: he that provoketh him, sinneth against his own soul.

Darby Bible Translation
The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion: he that provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.

English Revised Version
The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion: he that provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own life.

Webster's Bible Translation
The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoever provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.

World English Bible
The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.

Young's Literal Translation
The fear of a king is a growl as of a young lion, He who is causing him to be wroth is wronging his soul.
Lexicon
The fear
'eymah  (ay-maw')
fright; concrete, an idol (as a bugbear) -- dread, fear, horror, idol, terrible, terror.
of a king
melek  (meh'-lek)
a king -- king, royal.
is as the roaring
naham  (nah'-ham)
a snarl -- roaring.
of a lion
kphiyr  (kef-eer')
a village (as covered in by walls); also a young lion (perhaps as covered with a mane) -- (young) lion, village.
whoso provoketh him to anger
`abar  (aw-bar')
to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in copulation)
sinneth
chata'  (khaw-taw')
to miss; hence (figuratively and generally) to sin; by inference, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, (causatively) lead astray, condemn
against his own soul
nephesh  (neh'-fesh)
a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
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