Be you not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, else they come not near unto you.
Proverbs 26:3 - King James 2000 A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the fool's back. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, And a rod for the fool's back. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a [straight, slender] rod for the backs of [self-confident] fools. American Standard Version (1901) A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, And a rod for the back of fools. Common English Bible A whip for a horse, a bridle for a donkey, and a rod for the back of fools. Catholic Public Domain Version A whip is for a horse, and a muzzle is for donkey, and a rod is for the back of the imprudent. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version A whip for a horse, and a snaffle for an ass, and a rod for the back of fools. |
Be you not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, else they come not near unto you.
In the lips of him that has understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
A reproof enters more into a wise man than a hundred stripes into a fool.
Smite a scoffer, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that has understanding, and he will understand knowledge.
Judgments are prepared for scoffers and stripes for the back of fools.
Though you should crush a fool in a mortar among grain with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
What do you wish? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?
And having a readiness to punish all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
I told you before, and tell you again, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them who earlier have sinned, and to all others, that, if I come again, I will not spare: