Proverbs 20:2

The terror of a king is like bthe growling of a lion;

whoever provokes him to anger cforfeits his life.

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Proverbs 19:12
A king’s wrath is like the growling of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

Numbers 16:38
As for the censers of these men who have sinned at the cost of their lives, let them be made into hammered plates as a covering for the altar, for they offered them before the LORD, and they became holy. Thus they shall be a sign to the people of Israel.”

Habakkuk 2:10
You have devised shame for your house by cutting off many peoples; you have forfeited your life.

Proverbs 8:36
but he who fails to find me injures himself; all who hate me love death.”


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