Proverbs 17:12 Cross References

Proverbs 17:12

12: It is safer to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than to confront a fool caught in folly.

2 Samuel 17:8

  1. You know your father and his men; they are mighty warriors. Right now they are probably as enraged as a mother bear who has been robbed of her cubs. And remember that your father is an experienced soldier. He won't be spending the night among the troops.

Hosea 13:8

  1. I will rip you to pieces like a bear whose cubs have been taken away. I will tear you apart and devour you like a hungry lion.

Matthew 2:16

  1. Herod was furious when he learned that the wise men had outwitted him. He sent soldiers to kill all the boys in and around Bethlehem who were two years old and under, because the wise men had told him the star first appeared to them about two years earlier.

Proverbs 28:15

  1. A wicked ruler is as dangerous to the poor as a lion or bear attacking them.

Proverbs 27:3

  1. A stone is heavy and sand is weighty, but the resentment caused by a fool is heavier than both.

2 Kings 2:24

  1. Elisha turned around and looked at them, and he cursed them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of them.
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