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Douay-Rheims
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It is better to meet a bear robbed of her whelps, than a fool trusting in his own folly.
King James
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Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.
Louis Second
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Rencontre une ourse privée de ses petits, Plutôt qu'un insensé pendant sa folie
Martin Luther
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Es ist besser, einem Bären begegnen, dem die Jungen geraubet sind, denn einem Narren in seiner Narrheit.
Vulgate
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expedit magis ursae occurrere raptis fetibus quam fatuo confidenti sibi in stultitia sua

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary


magis : more, to a greater extent, rather, for preference.
quam : (fem. sing. acc.) (the church), WHICH the Lord loved.
quam : (adv. and conj.) how, than, as .. as possible.
fatuo : to render vain, cause to fail.
in : (+ acc.) into, toward, against.
in : (+ abl.) in.