Better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool bent on folly.
NIV
Let [the brute ferocity of] a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man rather than a [self-confident] fool in his folly [when he is in a rage]. [Hos. 13:8.]AMP
Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.
KJV