Proverbs 17:12

New International Version

Better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool bent on folly.

Cross References

2 Samuel 17:8

You know your father and his men; they are fighters, and as fierce as a wild bear robbed of her cubs. Besides, your father is an experienced fighter; he will not spend the night with the troops.

2 Kings 2:24

He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the Lord. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys.

Proverbs 17:11

Evildoers foster rebellion against God; the messenger of death will be sent against them.

Proverbs 27:3

Stone is heavy and sand a burden, but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both.

Proverbs 28:15

Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a helpless people.

Proverbs 29:9

If a wise person goes to court with a fool, the fool rages and scoffs, and there is no peace.

Hosea 13:8

Like a bear robbed of her cubs, I will attack them and rip them open; like a lion I will devour them— a wild animal will tear them apart.

Matthew 2:16

When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi.