³ A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back.

⁹ Be 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.

¹³ In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.

² I 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:

⁶ And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

²¹ What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?

²² Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

²⁹ Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.

²⁵ Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.

¹⁰ A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.

⁵ And 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.

⁶ And the princes of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thine army?

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