Proverbs 17:12 - Easy To Read Version

¹² It is very dangerous to meet a mother bear that is angry because her cubs are stolen. But that is better than to meet a fool that is busy doing his foolishness.

Tuilleadh leaganacha

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, Rather than a fool in his folly.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Let [the brute ferocity of] a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man rather than a [self-confident] fool in his folly [when he is in a rage]. [Hos. 13:8.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, Rather than a fool in his folly.

Common English Bible

¹² Safer to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than fools in their folly.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² It is more expedient to meet a bear robbed of her young, than the foolish trusting in his own folly.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² It is better to meet a bear robbed of her whelps, than a fool trusting in his own folly.

Proverbs 17:12 Tagairtí Cros

2 Samuel 17:8

Hushai added, “You know that your father and his men are strong men. They are as dangerous as a wild bear when something has taken its babies. Your father is a skilled fighter. He will not stay {all night} with the people.

2 Kings 2:24

Elisha looked back and saw them. He asked the Lord to cause bad things to happen to them. Then two bears came out of the forest and attacked the boys. There were 42 boys ripped apart by the bears.

Proverbs 17:11

An evil person only wants to do wrong. In the end, God will send a messenger to punish him.

Proverbs 27:3

A stone is heavy, and sand is hard to carry. But \{the trouble caused by\} an angry fool is much harder to bear.

Proverbs 28:15

When an evil person rules over weak people, he is like an angry lion or a bear that is ready to fight.

Proverbs 29:9

If a wise person tries to settle a problem with a fool, then the fool will argue and say stupid things. And the two people will never agree.

Hosea 13:8

I will attack them like a bear whose cubs were robbed from her. I will attack them. I will rip open their chests. I will be like a lion or other wild animal tearing and eating its prey.”

Matthew 2:16

Herod {\cf2\super [29]} saw that the wise men had fooled him. Herod was very, very angry. So Herod gave an order to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and in all the area around Bethlehem. Herod had learned from the wise men the time \{the baby was born\}. It was now two years from that time. So Herod said to kill all the boys that were two years old and younger.