Proverbs 17:12

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Cross References

Hosea 13:8

I will meet them as a bear that is robbed of her whelps, and I will rend the inner parts of their liver: and I will devour them there as a lion, the beast of the field shall tear them.

2 Samuel 17:8

And again Chusai said: Thou knowest thy father, and the men that are with him, that they are very valiant, and bitter in their mind, as a bear raging in the wood when her whelps are taken away. And thy father is a warrior, and will not lodge with the people.

Matthew 2:16

Then Herod perceiving that he was deluded by the wise men, was exceeding angry; and sending killed all the men children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the borders thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.

Proverbs 28:15

As a roaring lion, and a hungry bear, so is a wicked prince over the poor people.

Proverbs 27:3

A stone is heavy, and sand weighty: but the anger of a fool is heavier than them both.

2 Kings 2:24

And looking back, he saw them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord: and there came forth two bears out of the forest, and tore of them two and forty boys.

Proverbs 17:11

An evil man always seeketh quarrels: but a cruel angel shall be sent against him.

Proverbs 29:9

If a wise man contend with a fool, whether he be angry or laugh, he shall find no rest.