Proverbs 17:12
It is more expedient to meet a bear robbed of her young, than the foolish trusting in his own folly.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.
In Context
11The evil one continually seeks conflicts. But a cruel Angel shall be sent against him.
13Whoever repays evil for good, evil shall not withdraw from his house.
Cross References
2 Kings 2:24And when he had looked back, he saw them, and he cursed them in the name of the Lord. And two bears went out from the forest, and they wounded forty-two boys among them.
Proverbs 28:15An impious leader over a poor people is like a roaring lion and a hungry bear.
Matthew 2:16Then Herod, seeing that he had been fooled by the Magi, was very angry. And so he sent to kill all the boys who were in Bethlehem, and in all its borders, from two years of age and under, according to the time that he had learned by questioning the Magi.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 17:12
11 An evil man seeketh only rebellion: therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him. Here is the sin and punishment of an evil man. 1. His sin. He is an evil man indeed that seeks all occasions to rebel against God, and the government God has set over him, and to contradict and quarrel with those about him. Quærit jurgia—He picks quarrels; so some. There are some that are actuated by a spirit of opposition, that will contradict for contradiction-sake, that will go on frowardly in their wicked ways in… Read the whole commentary →