Proverbs 26:3 - Revised Standard Version CI

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

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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 a horse or a mule, without understanding, which must be curbed with bit and bridle, else it will not keep with you.

Proverbs 10:13

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

Proverbs 17:10

A rebuke goes deeper into a man of understanding than a hundred blows into a fool.

Proverbs 19:25

Strike a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; reprove a man of understanding, and he will gain knowledge.

Proverbs 19:29

Condemnation is ready for scoffers, and flogging for the backs of fools.

Proverbs 27:22

Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, yet his folly will not depart from him.

1 Corinthians 4:21

What do you wish? Shall I come to you with a rod, or with love in a spirit of gentleness?

2 Corinthians 10:6

being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is complete.

2 Corinthians 13:2

I warned those who sinned before and all the others, and I warn them now while absent, as I did when present on my second visit, that if I come again I will not spare them—