1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Proverbs 17:12 | It is better to meet a bear robbed of her whelps, than a fool trusting in his own folly. | 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. 9:1.) |