Proverbi 17:12

La Nuova Diodati

E meglio incontrare unorsa derubata dei suoi piccoli, che uno stolto nella sua follia.

Parallel Translations

Riveduta Bibbia
Meglio imbattersi in un’orsa derubata dei suoi piccini, che in un insensato nella sua follia.

Giovanni Diodati Bibbia
Scontrisi pure in un uomo un’orsa, a cui sieno stati tolti i suoi figli, Anzi che un pazzo nella sua pazzia.

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

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.