THEOSISProverbs 17:12Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
It is better to meet a bear robbed of her whelps, than a fool trusting in his own folly.
פָּג֬וֹשׁ דֹּ֣ב שַׁכּ֣וּל בְּאִ֑ישׁ וְאַל־כְּ֝סִ֗יל בְּאִוַּלְתּֽוֹ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- 2 Sam 17:8And again Chusai said: Thou knowest thy father, and the men that are with him, that they are very valiant, and bitter in their mind, as a bear raging in the wood when her whelps are taken away: and thy father is a warrior, and will not lodge with the people.
- Hos 13:8I will meet them as a bear that is robbed of her whelps, and I will rend the inner parts of their liver: and I will devour them there as a lion, the beast of the field shall tear them.
- Prov 28:15As a roaring lion, and a hungry bear, so is a wicked prince over the poor people.
- Prov 27:3A stone is heavy, and sand weighty: but the anger of a fool is heavier than them both.
- Matt 2:16Then Herod perceiving that he was deluded by the wise men, was exceeding angry: and sending killed all the menchildren that were in Bethlehem, and in all the borders thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.