Proverbs 17:12 Cross References

◄ Proverbs 17:12 ►

It is better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool in his folly.

Cross References

2 Samuel 17:8
He continued, "You know your father and his men. They are mighty men, and as fierce as a wild bear robbed of her cubs. Moreover, your father is a man of war who will not spend the night with the troops.

Proverbs 17:11
An evil man seeks only rebellion; a cruel messenger will be sent against him.

Proverbs 29:9
If a wise man goes to court with a fool, there will be raving and laughing with no resolution.

Hosea 13:8
Like a bear robbed of her cubs I will attack them, and I will tear open their chests. There I will devour them like a lion, like a wild beast would tear them apart.

Treasury of Scripture

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

a bear

Proverbs 28:15
As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.

2 Samuel 17:8
For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that they be mighty men, and they be chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.

2 Kings 2:24
And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.

rather

Proverbs 27:3
A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.

Matthew 2:16
Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.

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