Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.
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Bible References
A bear
Proverbs 28:15
Like as a roaring lion and a hungry bear, even so is an ungodly prince over the poor people.
2 Samuel 17:8
For," said Hushai, "thou knowest thy father and the men that are with him, how that they be strong men. And they be chafed in their minds, even as a bear robbed of her whelps. And thy father is a man practiced in war, and will not lie a nights among the common people.
2 Kings 2:24
And he turned back and looked on them and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came two bears out of the wood and tare forty two of the boys.
Hosea 13:8
I will come upon them as a she bear, that is robbed of her whelps, and I will break that stubborn heart of theirs. There will I devour them as a lion: yea the wild beast shall tear them.
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Proverbs 27:3
The stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
Matthew 2:16
Then Herod, perceiving that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, as many as were two years old and under according to the time which he had diligently searched out of the wise men.