Whelps

Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.

I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.

The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.

And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.

Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?

The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.

They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps.

The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.

And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.

Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.

• Family
• Burial
• Death

Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up? The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.

There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen: The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.

• Disease
• Heart
• Wisdom

Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly. Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house. The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.

And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from Bashan.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.

Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.