2The terror of a king is like the roar of a lion; whoever provokes him forfeits his own life.
Focused Passage
Proverbs 20:2
The LORD Searches the Heart: Sobriety, Justice, Counsel, Speech, and Honest Measures
The chapter moves from appetite and conflict, to hidden purposes and integrity, to royal justice and human impurity, to work and speech, to surety, fraud, counsel, and gossip, to family honor, inheritance, vengeance, and dishonest scales, and finally to providence, vows, royal judgment, the LORD's searching lamp, and painful correction.
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Verse 2
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The terrorאֵ֣ימַתH367Noun - feminine singular constructof a kingמֶ֑לֶךְH4428Noun - masculine singularis like the roarנַ֣הַםH5099Noun - masculine singularof a lionכַּ֭כְּפִירH3715Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singularwhoever provokes [him]מִ֝תְעַבְּר֗וֹH5674Verb - Hitpael - Participle - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singularforfeitsחוֹטֵ֥אH2398Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singularhis own lifeנַפְשֽׁוֹ׃H5315Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
BSB notes
- Literally sins against his own soul