Pro 17:12 | KD | STEP | 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, ; , 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. , , 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). 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.).

‏ Proverbs 17:12

Pro 17:12 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). ^{▼▼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.).