Proverbs 26:3 - Modern King James Version

³ A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, And a rod for the fool's back.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ 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)

³ A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, And a rod for the back of fools.

Common English Bible

³ A whip for a horse, a bridle for a donkey, and a rod for the back of fools.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ 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

³ A whip for a horse, and a snaffle for an ass, and a rod for the back of fools.

Proverbs 26:3 Tagairtí Cros

Psalm 32:9

Be not like the horse, or like the mule, who have no understanding, whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, so that they do not come near you.

Proverbs 10:13

In the lips of him who has understanding, wisdom is found; but a rod is for the back of him who is without understanding.

Proverbs 17:10

A reproof enters more into a wise man than a thousand stripes into a fool.

Proverbs 19:25

Strike a scorner, and the simple will beware; reprove one who has understanding, and he will understand knowledge.

Proverbs 19:29

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

Proverbs 27:22

Though you should pound a fool in a bowl with a bar in the midst of wheat, his foolishness will not depart from him.

1 Corinthians 4:21

What do you desire? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and the spirit of meekness?

2 Corinthians 10:6

and having readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

2 Corinthians 13:2

I told you before, and I say beforehand, as being present the second time and being absent now. I write to those who sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare.