Proverbs 17:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹² Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, Rather than a fool in his folly.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, Rather than a fool in his folly.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Let [the brute ferocity of] a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man rather than a [self-confident] fool in his folly [when he is in a rage]. [Hos. 13:8.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, Rather than a fool in his folly.

Common English Bible

¹² Safer to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than fools in their folly.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² It is more expedient to meet a bear robbed of her young, than the foolish trusting in his own folly.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² It is better to meet a bear robbed of her whelps, than a fool trusting in his own folly.

Proverbs 17:12 Cross References

2 Samuel 17:8

Hushai said moreover, Thou knowest thy father and his men, that they be mighty men, and they be chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.

2 Kings 2:24

And he looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she-bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.

Proverbs 17:11

An evil man seeketh only rebellion; Therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.

Proverbs 27:3

A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; But a fool's vexation is heavier than them both.

Proverbs 28:15

As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; So is a wicked ruler over a poor people.

Proverbs 29:9

If a wise man hath a controversy with a foolish man, Whether he be angry or laugh, there will be no rest.

Hosea 13:8

I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart: and there will I devour them like a lion; the wild beast shall tear them.

Matthew 2:16

Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the male children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the borders thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had carefully learned of the wise men.