So he turned around and looked at them and cursed them in the Name of Adonai. Then two she-bears came out of the woods and mauled 42 of the boys.
Proverbs 19:29 - Tree of Life Version Judgments are prepared for scoffers, and floggings for the back of fools. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
So he turned around and looked at them and cursed them in the Name of Adonai. Then two she-bears came out of the woods and mauled 42 of the boys.
Happy is the one who has not walked in the advice of the wicked, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the seat of scoffers.
“How long will you naïve ones love simplicity, you scoffers delight in scoffing, and you fools hate knowledge?
I in turn will laugh at your calamity. I will mock when dread comes on you,
Wisdom is found on the lips of the discerning, but a rod is for the back of one lacking sense.
A rebuke makes a greater impression on a discerning person than a hundred lashes on a fool.
The lips of a fool enter into an argument and his mouth invites a beating.
A whip for a horse, a bridle for a donkey, and a rod for the back of fools.
Suddenly he follows her like an ox going to the slaughter, like a stag bounding toward a trap,
If you are wise, you are wise to your own advantage, but if you scoff, you bear it alone.
So now, stop your scoffing, lest your shackles be strengthened! For I have heard from Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot of destruction determined upon the whole land.
For the ruthless will come to an end and the scorner will be finished, and all watching to do evil cut off.
Now if the guilty one deserves to be flogged, the judge is to make him lie down and be flogged before him, with the number of lashes in proportion to his guilt.
because Adonai disciplines the one He loves and punishes every son He accepts.”