¹⁶ And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.

⁷ And Gideon said, Therefore when Jehovah hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.

⁶ The children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua `and' Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve.

¹³ In the lips of him that hath discernment wisdom is found; But a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.

²⁹ Judgments are prepared for scoffers, And stripes for the back of fools.

⁴ The best of them is as a brier; the most upright is `worse' than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen, even thy visitation, is come; now shall be their perplexity.