Proverbs 17:12

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Cross References

2 Samuel 17:8

And again Hushai declared, "You know your father, and the men who are with him, to be very strong and bitter in soul, comparable to a bear raging in the forest when her young have been taken away. Moreover, your father is a man of war, and so he will not live among the people.

2 Kings 2:24

And when he had looked back, he saw them, and he cursed them in the name of the Lord. And two bears went out from the forest, and they wounded forty-two boys among them.

Proverbs 17:11

The evil one continually seeks conflicts. But a cruel Angel shall be sent against him.

Proverbs 27:3

A stone is weighty, and sand is burdensome; but the wrath of the foolish is heavier than both.

Proverbs 28:15

An impious leader over a poor people is like a roaring lion and a hungry bear.

Proverbs 29:9

A wise man, if he were to contend with the foolish, whether in anger or in laughter, would find no rest.

Hosea 13:8

I will run to meet them like a bear that has been robbed of her young, and I will split open the middle of their liver. And I will devour them there like a lion; the beast of the field will tear them apart.

Matthew 2:16

Then Herod, seeing that he had been fooled by the Magi, was very angry. And so he sent to kill all the boys who were in Bethlehem, and in all its borders, from two years of age and under, according to the time that he had learned by questioning the Magi.