Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
as a roaring lion: This powerful simile in reference to Satan allows us to hear the roar of a beast in fierce hunger. In this passage Satan is no angel of light (2 Corinthians 11:14); Satan, as a raging monarch of the jungle, moves in power (Proverbs 30:30; Psalms 22:13).