Proverbs 17:12
It is better to meet a bear robbed of her whelps, than a fool trusting in his own folly.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Expedit magis ursæ occurrere raptis fœtibus, quam fatuo confidenti in stultitia sua.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐμπεσεῖται μέριμνα ἀνδρὶ νοήμονι, οἱ δὲ ἄφρονες διαλογιοῦνται κακά.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- פָּג֬וֹשׁ דֹּ֣ב שַׁכּ֣וּל בְּאִ֑ישׁ וְאַל כְּ֝סִ֗יל בְּאִוַּלְתּֽוֹ
Haydock's commentary
Fool. Hebrew, "fool in his folly." The danger is not greater in meeting (Calmet) a female bear, though it be the most terrible. (Aristotle, Anim. ix. 1.)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.