Proverbs 17:12 Cross References - Darby

¹² Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man rather than a fool in his folly.

⁸ And Hushai said, Thou knowest thy father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are of exasperated spirit, 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.

²⁴ And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of Jehovah. And there came forth two she-bears out of the wood, and tore forty-two children of them.

³ A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool`s vexation is heavier than them both.

¹⁵ A roaring lion, and a ranging bear, is a wicked ruler over a poor people.

⁸ I will meet them as a bear bereaved of her [whelps], and will rend the covering of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lioness: the beast of the field shall tear them.

¹⁶ Then Herod, seeing that he had been mocked by the magi, was greatly enraged; and sent and slew all the boys which [were] in Bethlehem, and in all its borders, from two years and under, according to the time which he had accurately inquired from the magi.