Proverbs 17:12
It is better for a man to meete a beare robbed of her whelpes, then a foole in his follie.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 sedicious person seeketh onely euill, and a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.
13He that rewardeth euil for good, euil shall not depart from his house.
Cross References
2 Kings 2:24And he turned backe, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And two beares came out of the forest, and tare in pieces two and fourtie children of them.
Proverbs 28:15As a roaring lyon, and an hungry beare, so is a wicked ruler ouer the poore people.
Matthew 2:16Then Herod, seeing that he was mocked of the Wisemen, was exceeding wroth, and sent foorth, and slew all the male children that were in Beth-leem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two yeere old and vnder, according to the time which he had diligently searched out of the Wisemen.
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 →