¹⁶ Then he took the responsible men of the town and had them crushed on a bed of thorns and sharp stems.

⁷ Then Gideon said, Because of this, when the Lord has given Zebah and Zalmunna into my hands, I will have you stretched on a bed of thorns of the waste land and on sharp stems, and have you crushed as grain is crushed on a grain-floor.

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 who has knowledge wisdom is seen; but a rod is ready for the back of him who is without sense.

²⁹ Rods are being made ready for the man of pride, and blows for the back of the foolish.

⁴ The best of them is like a waste plant, and their upright ones are like a wall of thorns. Sorrow! the day of their fate has come; now will trouble come on them.