²⁹ Judgments have been prepared for scorners, And stripes for the back of fools!

³ A whip is for a horse, a bridle for an ass, And a rod for the back of fools.

¹³ In the lips of the intelligent is wisdom found, And a rod `is' for the back of him who is lacking understanding.

¹² If thou hast been wise, thou hast been wise for thyself, And thou hast scorned -- thyself bearest `it'.

³ this first knowing, that there shall come in the latter end of the days scoffers, according to their own desires going on,

⁴ and saying, `Where is the promise of his presence? for since the fathers did fall asleep, all things so remain from the beginning of the creation;'

⁵ for this is unobserved by them willingly, that the heavens were of old, and the earth out of water and through water standing together by the word of God,

⁶ through which the then world, by water having been deluged, was destroyed;

⁷ and the present heavens and the earth, by the same word are treasured, for fire being kept to a day of judgment and destruction of the impious men.

⁶ for whom the Lord doth love He doth chasten, and He scourgeth every son whom He receiveth;'

⁴⁰ see, therefore, it may not come upon you that hath been spoken in the prophets:

⁴¹ See, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish, because a work I -- I do work in your days, a work in which ye may not believe, though any one may declare `it' to you.'

²⁰ For ceased hath the terrible one, And consumed hath been the scorner, And cut off have been all watching for iniquity,

²² And now, show not yourselves scorners, Lest strong be your bands, For a consumption, that is determined, I have heard, by the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, `Is' for all the land.

⁶ The lips of a fool enter into strife, And his mouth for stripes calleth.

¹⁰ Rebuke cometh down on the intelligent More than a hundred stripes on a fool.

²² He is going after her straightway, As an ox unto the slaughter he cometh, And as a fetter unto the chastisement of a fool,

³⁴ If the scorners He doth scorn, Yet to the humble He doth give grace.