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Selected Verse: Proverbs 17:12 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Pr 17:12 |
Strong Concordance |
Let a bear [01677] robbed [07909] of her whelps meet [06298] a man [0376], rather than [0408] a fool [03684] in his folly [0200]. |
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King James |
Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| They are less rational in anger than wild beasts. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| 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 Sa2 17:8; Kg2 2:24. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
12 Meet a bear robbed of one of her whelps,
Only not a fool in his folly.
The name of the bear, as that of the cow, Job 21:10; Psa 144:14, preserves its masculine form, even when used in reference to sexual relationship (Ewald, 174b); the ursa catulis orbata is proverbially a raging beast. How the abstract expression of the action פּגושׁ [to meet], here as e.g., Psa 17:5, with the subj. following, must sound as finite (occurrat, may always meet), follows from ואל = ואל־יפגּשׁ (non autem occurrat). פּגושׁ has on the last syllable Mehuppach, and Zinnorith on the preceding open syllable (according to the rule, Accentssystem, vi. 5d).
(Note: In the Torath Emeth, p. 18, the word is irregularly represented as Milel - a closed syllable with Cholem can suffer no retrogression of the tone.)
שׁכּוּל, in the state of his folly, i.e., when he is in a paroxysm of his anger, corresponds with the conditional noun-adjective שׁכּוּל, for folly morbidly heightened is madness (cf. Hos 11:7; Psychol. p. 291f.). |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Folly - In the heat of his lust or passion. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Let a bear robbed of her whelps - At which times such animals are peculiarly fierce. See the note on Sa2 17:8. |
24 And he turned [06437] back [0310], and looked [07200] on them, and cursed [07043] them in the name [08034] of the LORD [03068]. And there came forth [03318] two [08147] she bears [01677] out of the wood [03293], and tare [01234] forty [0705] and two [08147] children [03206] of them.
8 For, said [0559] Hushai [02365], thou knowest [03045] thy father [01] and his men [0582], that they be mighty men [01368], and they be chafed [04751] in their minds [05315], as a bear [01677] robbed [07909] of her whelps in the field [07704]: and thy father [01] is a man [0376] of war [04421], and will not lodge [03885] with the people [05971].
7 And my people [05971] are bent [08511] to backsliding [04878] from me: though they called [07121] them to the most High [05920], none at all [03162] would exalt [07311] him.
5 Hold up [08551] my goings [0838] in thy paths [04570], that my footsteps [06471] slip [04131] not.
14 That our oxen [0441] may be strong to labour [05445]; that there be no breaking in [06556], nor going out [03318]; that there be no complaining [06682] in our streets [07339].
10 Their bull [07794] gendereth [05674], and faileth [01602] not; their cow [06510] calveth [06403], and casteth not her calf [07921].
8 For, said [0559] Hushai [02365], thou knowest [03045] thy father [01] and his men [0582], that they be mighty men [01368], and they be chafed [04751] in their minds [05315], as a bear [01677] robbed [07909] of her whelps in the field [07704]: and thy father [01] is a man [0376] of war [04421], and will not lodge [03885] with the people [05971].