Proverbs 17:12 Cross References - VIN

¹² ¶ It is better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool in his folly.

⁸ "You know your father and his followers are mighty warriors. They are as fierce as a mother bear whose cubs have just been killed. Your father has a lot of experience in fighting wars. He will not spend the night with the others.

²⁴ He looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. Two female bears came out of the woods, and mauled forty-two of those youths.

³ A stone is heavy, and sand a burden, but a fool's anger is heavier than both.

¹⁵ As a roaring lion or a charging bear, so is a wicked ruler over helpless people.

⁸ "Like a bear that has lost her cubs, I will attack you. I will rip you open. Like a lion I will devour you. Like a wild animal I will tear you apart.

¹⁶ When Herod saw that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was filled with rage. Sending orders, he put to death all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, according to the time he had learned from the Magi.