OLD TESTAMENT

Proverbs 17:12

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12

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

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Verse 12. Fool. Hebrew “fool in his folly.” The danger is not greater in meeting ( Calmet.) a female bear, though it be the most terrible. Arist. Anim. ix. 1.

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