KJV King James Version
A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool’s back.
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Proverbs 26:3
A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool’s back.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the backs of fools!
WEB World English Bible
A whip is for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools!
ASV American Standard Version
A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, And a rod for the back of fools.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
A whip is for a horse, a bridle for an ass, And a rod for the back of fools.
Surrounding context — Proverbs 26
1 As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.
2 As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.
3 A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool’s back.
4 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
6 He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, [and] drinketh damage.
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Proverbs 10:13In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod [is] for the back of him that is void of understanding.Psalm 32:9Be ye not as the horse, [or] as the mule, [which] have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.1 Corinthians 4:21What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and [in] the spirit of meekness?Proverbs 17:10A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.Judges 8:5-7And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they [be] faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.Proverbs 19:25Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, [and] he will understand knowledge.Proverbs 27:22Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, [yet] will not his foolishness depart from him.Proverbs 19:29Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.2 Corinthians 10:6And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.2 Corinthians 13:2I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:
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