Proverbs 17:12
Let a man meet a [ferocious] bear robbed of her cubs
Rather than the [angry, narcissistic] fool in his folly.
2 Samuel 17:8
And Hushai said, “You know your father and his men, that they are brave men, and they are
Hosea 13:8
I will encounter them like a bear robbed of her cubs,
And I will tear open their chests;
There I will also devour them like a lioness,
As a wild beast would tear them.
Proverbs 27:3
Stone is heavy and the sand weighty,
But a fool’s [unreasonable] wrath is heavier and more burdensome than both of them.
2 Kings 2:24
When he turned around and looked at them, he cursed them in the name of the Lord. Then two female bears came out of the woods and tore to pieces forty-two of the boys.
Proverbs 28:15
Like a roaring lion and a charging bear
Is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
Matthew 2:16
Then Herod, when he realized that he had been tricked by the magi, was extremely angry, and he sent [soldiers] and put to death all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that area who were two years old and under, according to the date which he had learned from the magi.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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Bible References
A bear
Like a roaring lion and a charging bear
Is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
I will encounter them like a bear robbed of her cubs,
And I will tear open their chests;
There I will also devour them like a lioness,
As a wild beast would tear them.
Rather
Stone is heavy and the sand weighty,
But a fool’s [unreasonable] wrath is heavier and more burdensome than both of them.