Let a bear robbed, &c.— Bochart observes four things concerning the bear: the first every one knows, that the bear is an exceedingly fierce creature; the second, that the female is more fierce than the male; the third, that she is more fierce than ordinary when she has whelps; and lastly, when she is robbed of them, the is fiercest of all. See 2 Samuel 17:8. Hosea 13:8 and Bochart de Animal. Sacr. lib. 3: cap. 9.
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Proverbs 17:12
12 Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.