Proverbs 17:12

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

It speedeth more to meet a female bear, when her whelps be ravished, than a fool trusting to himself in his folly.

Cross References

2 Samuel 17:8

And again Hushai said, Thou knowest, that thy father, and the men that be with him, be most strong, and in bitter soul, as if a she bear is fierce in the forest, when her whelps be ravished from her; but also thy father is a man warrior, and he shall not dwell with the people.

2 Kings 2:24

And when he had beheld, he saw them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And two bears went out of the forest, and rent two and forty children of them.

Proverbs 17:11

Ever an evil man seeketh strives; forsooth a cruel angel shall be sent against him.

Proverbs 27:3

A stone is heavy, and gravel is chargeous; but the ire [or the wrath] of a fool is heavier than ever either.

Proverbs 28:15

A roaring lion, and an hungry bear, is a wicked prince on a poor people.

Proverbs 29:9

If a wise man striveth with a fool, whether he be wroth, or laugh, he shall not find rest.

Hosea 13:8

I as a female bear, when the whelps be ravished, shall meet them; and shall all-break the inner things of the maw of them. And I as a lion shall waste them there; a beast of the field shall rend them.

Matthew 2:16

Then Herod seeing that he was scorned, either deceived, of the astronomers, [or the kings], was full wroth; and he sent, and slew all the children, that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years age and within, after the time that he had inquired of the astronomers [or that he had sought out of the kings].