Proverbs 26:3 - Tree of Life Version

³ A whip for a horse, a bridle for a donkey, 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.

Proverbs 26:3 Tagairtí Cros

Psalm 32:9

Do not be like the horse or the mule, which have no understanding, and must be held in with bit and bridle or they will not come to you.”

Proverbs 10:13

Wisdom is found on the lips of the discerning, but a rod is for the back of one lacking sense.

Proverbs 17:10

A rebuke makes a greater impression on a discerning person than a hundred lashes on a fool.

Proverbs 19:25

Strike a scoffer and the naïve will learn caution. rebuke a discerning person and he will gain knowledge.

Proverbs 19:29

Judgments are prepared for scoffers, and floggings for the back of fools.

Proverbs 27:22

Even if you pound the fool along with the grain in a mortar with a pestle, his foolishness would never leave him.

1 Corinthians 4:21

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

2 Corinthians 10:6

ready to punish all disobedience, whenever your obedience is complete.

2 Corinthians 13:2

I spoke a warning, when I was with you the second time. Though now I am away, I am again speaking a warning to those who have sinned before, as well as to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare anyone—