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

⁹ Be ye not as a horse -- as a mule, Without understanding, With bridle and bit, its ornaments, to curb, Not to come near unto thee.

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

² I have said before, and I say `it' before, as being present, the second time, and being absent, now, do I write to those having sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare,

⁶ and being in readiness to avenge every disobedience, whenever your obedience may be fulfilled.

²¹ what do ye wish? with a rod shall I come unto you, or in love, with a spirit also of meekness?

²² If thou dost beat the foolish in a mortar, Among washed things -- with a pestle, His folly turneth not aside from off him.

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

²⁵ A scorner smite, and the simple acts prudently, And give reproof to the intelligent, He understandeth knowledge.

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

⁵ and he saith to the men of Succoth, `Give, I pray you, cakes of bread to the people who `are' at my feet, for they `are' wearied, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna kings of Midian.'

⁶ And the heads of Succoth say, `Is the hand of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thy hand, that we give to thy host bread?'

⁷ And Gideon saith, `Therefore -- in Jehovah's giving Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand -- I have threshed your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness, and with the threshing instruments.'