Proverbs 17:5 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁵ 2 It is better to meet a bear robbed of her whelps, than a fool trusting in his own folly.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: And he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker, and he who is glad at calamity shall not be held innocent or go unpunished. [Job 31:29; Prov. 14:31; Obad. 12.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker; And he that is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

Common English Bible

⁵ Those who mock the poor insult their maker; those who rejoice in disaster won’t go unpunished.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ Whoever despises the poor rebukes his Maker. And whoever rejoices in the ruin of another will not go unpunished.

Proverbs 17:5 Cross References

Job 31:29

4 If I have been afraid at a very great multitude, and the contempt of kinsmen hath terrified me: and I have not rather held my peace, and not gone out of the door.

Psalm 69:9

6 Hear me, O Lord, for thy mercy is kind; look upon me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.

Proverbs 14:21

8 In the multitude of people is the dignity of the king: and in the small number of people the dishonour of the prince.

Proverbs 14:31

The eyes of the Lord in every place behold the good and the evil.

Proverbs 16:5

2 They that act wickedly are abominable to the king: for the throne is established by justice.

Jeremiah 17:16

4 And it shall come to pass: if you will hearken to me, saith the Lord, to bring in no burdens by the gates of this city on the sabbath day: and if you will sanctify the sabbath day, to do no work therein:

Ezekiel 25:3

1 And I will execute judgments in Moab: and they shall know that I am the Lord.

Obadiah 1:10

8 And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble: and they shall be kindled in them, and shall devour them: and there shall be no remains of the house of Esau, for the Lord hath spoken it.

Obadiah 1:16

And Jonas rose up to flee into Tharsis from the face of the Lord, and he went down to Joppe, and found a ship going to Tharsis: and he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them to Tharsis from the face of the Lord.

Romans 12:15

For princes are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? Do that which is good: and thou shalt have praise from the same.

1 John 3:17

By this is the spirit of God known. Every spirit which confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is of God: