Amsal 17:12

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Lebih baik berjumpa dengan beruang betina yang kehilangan anak, dari pada dengan orang bebal dengan kebodohannya.

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Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Lebih baik berjumpa dengan beruang betina yang kehilangan anak, dari pada dengan orang bebal dengan kebodohannya.

Contextual Overview

¹² It were better to meete a shee beare robbed of her whelpes, then a foole [trusting] in his foolishnesse.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a bear: Proverbs 28:15, 2 Samuel 17:8, 2 Kings 2:24, Hosea 13:8

rather: Proverbs 27:3, Matthew 2:16

Reciprocal: Genesis 19:9 - pressed Ecclesiastes 7:25 - know Daniel 3:13 - in his Daniel 7:5 - another Revelation 13:2 - and his feet

Cross-References

Genesis 17:22
And he left of talkyng with hym, and departed vp from Abraham.

Genesis 17:23
Abraham toke Ismael his sonne, and such as were borne in his house, & al that was bought with money, as many as were men chyldren, whiche were amongst the men of Abrahams house, & circumcised the fleshe of their foreskinne euen in the selfe same day, as God had sayde vnto hym.

Genesis 21:4
And Abraham circumcised his sonne Isahac, when he was eyght dayes olde, as God commaunded him.

Leviticus 12:3
And in the eyght day, the fleshe of the childes foreskinne shalbe cut away.

Luke 1:59
And it came to passe, that on the eyght day they came to circumcise the chylde, and called his name Zacharias, after the name of his father.

Luke 2:21
And when the eygth day was come, that the chylde shoulde be circumcised, his name was called Iesus, whiche was so named of the Angel, before he was conceaued in the wombe.

Acts 7:8
And he gaue hym the couenaunt of circumcision: And he begate Isaac, and circumcised hym the eyght day, and Isaac [begate] Iacob, and Iacob [begate] the twelue patriarkes.

Romans 2:28
For he is not a Iewe, whiche is a Iewe outwarde. Neither is that circucision which is outwarde in the fleshe:

Philippians 3:5
Circumcised the eyght day, of the kinred of Israel, of the tribe of Beniamin, an Ebrue of the Ebrues, after the lawe a pharisee,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man,.... A bear is a very fierce and furious creature, especially a she bear; and she is still more so when robbed of her whelps, which she has just whelped, and been at great pains to lick into shape and form, by which her fondness to them is increased; and therefore, being stripped of them, is full of rage; and ranging about in quest of them, falls furiously upon the first she meets with. Jerom n observes, that those who have written of the nature of beasts say, that, among all wild beasts, there is none more fierce than a she bear, when she has lost her whelps, or wants food. And yet, as terrible and as dangerous as it is, it is safer and more eligible of the two, to meet an enraged bear in those circumstances,

rather than a fool in his folly; in the height of his folly, in a paroxysm or fit of that; in the heat of his lusts, and the pursuit of them, in which there is no stopping him, or turning him from them; especially in the heat of passion and anger, which exceeds that of a bear, and is not so easily avoided. Jarchi applies it to such fools as seduce persons to idolatry, whom to meet is very dangerous: such are the followers of the man of sin, who have no mercy on the souls of men they deceive, and whose damnation they are the cause of; and who are implacably cruel to those who will not join with them in their idolatrous worship; the beast of Rome, his feet are as the feet of a bear, Revelation 13:2; and one had better meet a bear than him and his followers.

n Comment, in Hos. xiii. 8. So Aristot. Hist. Animal. l. 6. c. 18.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The large brown bear of Syria, in her rage at the loss of her whelps, was to the Israelites the strongest type of brute ferocity. Compare 2 Samuel 17:8; 2 Kings 2:24.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 17:12. Let a bear robbed of her whelps — At which times such animals are peculiarly fierce. 2 Samuel 17:8.