Proverbs 17:12
Let an ish meet a dov robbed of her cubs 1 rather than a kesil in his folly. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.
In Context
11A rah seeketh only rebellion; 1 therefore a merciless malach shall be sent to him. 1
13He who rewardeth ra'ah for tovah, 1 ra'ah shall not depart from his bais. 1
Cross References
2 Kings 2:24And he turned around, and looked on them, and cursed them in the Shem Hashem. And there came forth two dubim (female bears) out of the woods, and mauled 42 yeladim of them.
Proverbs 28:15As a roaring ari, and a charging dov (bear), 1 so is a wicked moshel (ruler) over the am dal (poor people). 1
Matthew 2:16When Herod saw that he had been outwitted by the chachamim, he was greatly enraged, and he ordered the slaughter of all the yeladim in Beit-Lechem and its vicinity who were two years old or under, in accordance with the time that he had learned from the chachamim.
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 →