Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Bible References

A bear

Proverbs 28:15
Like a roaring lion and a rushing bear
Is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
2 Samuel 17:8
Moreover, Hushai said, “You know your father and his men, that they are mighty men and they are fierce, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. And your father is an expert in warfare, and will not spend the night with the people.
2 Kings 2:24
When he looked behind him and saw them, he cursed them in the name of the Lord. Then two female bears came out of the woods and tore up forty-two lads of their number.
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.

Rather

Proverbs 27:3
A stone is heavy and the sand weighty,
But the provocation of a fool is heavier than both of them.
Matthew 2:16
Then when Herod saw that he had been tricked by the magi, he became very enraged, and sent and slew all the male children who were in Bethlehem and all its vicinity, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had determined from the magi.

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