Proverbs 17:12

New International Reader's Version

It is better to meet a bear whose cubs have been stolen than to meet a foolish person who is acting foolishly.

Cross References

2 Samuel 17:8

You know your father and his men. They are fighters. They are as strong as a wild bear whose cubs have been stolen from her. Besides, your father really knows how to fight. He won’t spend the night with his troops.

2 Kings 2:24

He turned around and looked at them. And he asked for bad things to happen to them. He did it in the name of the Lord. Then two bears came out of the woods. They attacked 42 of the boys.

Proverbs 17:11

An evil person tries to keep others from obeying God. The messenger of death will be sent against them.

Proverbs 27:3

Stones are heavy, and sand weighs a lot. But letting a foolish person make you angry is a heavier load than both of them.

Proverbs 28:15

An evil person who rules over helpless people is like a roaring lion or an angry bear.

Proverbs 29:9

Suppose a wise person goes to court with a foolish person. Then the foolish person gets mad and pokes fun, and there is no peace.

Hosea 13:8

I will attack them like a bear that is robbed of her cubs. I will rip them wide open. Like a lion I will eat them up. Like a wild animal I will tear them apart.

Matthew 2:16

Herod realized that the Wise Men had tricked him. So he became very angry. He gave orders about Bethlehem and the area around it. He ordered all the boys two years old and under to be killed. This agreed with the time when the Wise Men had seen the star.