Proverbs 19:29 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Punishments are prepared for scoffers and flogging for the backs of fools.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Judgments are prepared for scorners, And stripes for the back of fools.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Judgments are prepared for scoffers, and stripes for the backs of [self-confident] fools. [Isa. 32:6.]

American Standard Version (1901)

Judgments are prepared for scoffers, And stripes for the back of fools.

Common English Bible

Punishments were made for mockers, and blows for the backs of fools.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Judgments are prepared for those who ridicule. And striking hammers are prepared for the bodies of the foolish.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Judgments are prepared for scorners: and striking hammers for the bodies of fools.

Proverbs 19:29 Cross References

2 Kings 2:24

When he turned around and saw them, he cursed them in the name of the Lord. Then two she-bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys.

Psalm 1:1

Happy are those who do not follow the advice of the wicked or take the path that sinners tread or sit in the seat of scoffers,

Proverbs 1:22

“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 1:26

I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when panic strikes you,

Proverbs 10:13

On the lips of one who has understanding wisdom is found, but a rod is for the back of one who lacks sense.

Proverbs 17:10

A rebuke strikes deeper into a discerning person than a hundred blows into a fool.

Proverbs 18:6

A fool’s lips bring strife, and a fool’s mouth invites a flogging.

Proverbs 26:3

A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools.

Proverbs 3:34

Toward the scorners he is scornful, but to the humble he shows favor.

Proverbs 7:22

Right away he follows her and goes like an ox to the slaughter or bounds like a stag toward the trap

Proverbs 9:12

If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if you scoff, you alone will bear it.

Isaiah 28:22

Now therefore do not scoff, or your bonds will be made stronger, for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord God of hosts upon the whole land.

Isaiah 29:20

For the tyrant shall be no more, and the scoffer shall cease to be; all those alert to do evil shall be cut off—

Deuteronomy 25:2

If the one in the wrong deserves to be flogged, the judge shall make that person lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of lashes proportionate to the offense.

Hebrews 12:6

for the Lord disciplines those whom he loves and chastises every child whom he accepts.”