Penalties are prepared for scoffers, and beatings for the backs of fools.
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Penalties are prepared for scoffers, and beatings for the backs of fools.
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Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
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Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
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Passages linked to Proverbs 19:29 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Proverbs 26:3 A whip is for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools!
- Proverbs 10:13 Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has discernment, but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding.
- Proverbs 9:12 If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. If you mock, you alone will bear it.
- Acts 13:40-41 Beware therefore, lest that come on you which is spoken in the prophets: ‘Behold, you scoffers, and wonder, and perish; for I work a work in your days, a work which you will in no way believe, if one declares it to you.’ ”
- 2 Peter 3:3-7 knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.” For this they willfully forget that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water by the word of God, by which means the world that existed then, being overflowed with water, perished. But the heavens that exist now and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
- Proverbs 3:34 Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.
- Proverbs 17:10 A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding than a hundred lashes into a fool.
- Proverbs 18:6 A fool’s lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings.
- Isaiah 28:22 Now therefore don’t be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, on the whole earth.
- Isaiah 29:20 For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off—
- Hebrews 12:6 for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”
- Proverbs 7:22 He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Pro 19:29 Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes…
Pro 19:29 Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
Ver. 29. Judgments are prepared for scorners.] For these scorners (that promise themselves impunity) are judgments, not one, but many, not appointed only, but prepared long since, and now ready to be executed.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Prepared, either by men, or at least by God;…
Prepared, either by men, or at least by God; although they: be deferred for a thee, yet they are treasured up for them, and shall infallibly be inflicted upon them.
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Matthew Henry 1710 · Public Domain Note, 1. Scorners are fools. Those that ridicule things…
Note, 1. Scorners are fools. Those that ridicule things sacred and serious do but make themselves ridiculous. Their folly shall be manifest unto all men. 2. Those that scorn judgments cannot escape them, Pro 19:28. The unbelief of man shall not make God's threatenings of no effect; those that devour iniquity swallow the hook with the bait. The civil magistrate has judgments prepared for scorners, for otherwise he would bear the sword in vain; but if he be remiss, and connive at sin, yet God's judgments slumber not; they are prepared, Mat 25:41.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Judgments are prepared for scorners,.... Either by the civil…
Judgments are prepared for scorners,.... Either by the civil magistrate, or by the Lord, and indeed by both; and if they miss the one, they will certainly meet the other; though they mock at present punishment and a future judgment, yet everlasting fire is prepared for them, Mat 25:41;
and stripes for the back of fools; as scorners are; which shall be inflicted on them sooner or later; if they are not stricken with the stripes of men, they shall endure the strokes of divine justice and vengeance hereafter.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Prepared - Although they be deferred for a time,…
Prepared - Although they be deferred for a time, yet they are treasured up for them.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 29. Stripes for the back of fools.] Profane…
Verse 29. Stripes for the back of fools.] Profane and wicked men expose themselves to the punishments denounced against such by just laws. Avoid, therefore, both their company and their end.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Pro 19:29. Judgments are prepared for scorners — Either…
Pro 19:29. Judgments are prepared for scorners — Either by men, or, at least, by God; although they be deferred for a time, yet they are treasured up for them, and shall infallibly be inflicted upon them: and stripes for the back of fools — Nor shall other sinners escape, who sin through want of consideration, but they also shall be punished, though in a less degree.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Hammers, (Symmachus) "punishments." (Septuagint) See Judges v. 25. (Calmet)
Hammers, (Symmachus) "punishments." (Septuagint) See Judges v. 25. (Calmet)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Their punishment is sure, fixed, and ready (compare Pro…
Their punishment is sure, fixed, and ready (compare Pro 3:34; Pro 10:13).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 29. Judgments are prepared for scorners — This may…
29. Judgments are prepared for scorners — This may relate to the preceding proverb, and threaten the punishment due to the crimes of those who have no regard for truth and justice. Compare Pro_14:3; Pro_26:3. The Septuagint, however, has here a good temperance proverb, which seems to connect this passage with the next chapter: namely, “Scourges are preparing for the intemperate, and punishments likewise for fools.”
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (29) Judgments are prepared for scorners.—(Comp. Pro_19:25.)
(29) Judgments are prepared for scorners.—(Comp. Pro_19:25.)
Fools.—See above on Pro_1:22.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Judgments are prepared for scorners (see on ver. 25).…
Judgments are prepared for scorners (see on ver. 25). The judgments here are those inflicted by the providence of God, as in Pro_3:34. Scorners may deride and affect to scorn the judgments of God and man, but they are warned that retribution awaits them. And stripes for the back of fools; Vulgate, Et mallei percutientes stultorum corporibus. (comp. Pro_10:13:26:3) We had the word here rendered "stripes" (twOmWlhm, mahalumoth ) in Pro_18:6. The certainty of punishment in the case of transgressors is a truth often insisted on even by heathens. Examples will occur to all readers, from the old Greek oracle, Oudeipwn adikwn tisin ouk apotisei , to Horace"s "Raro antecedentem scelestum," etc. (See on Pro_20:30, where, however, the punishment is of human infliction)
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Paul E. Kretzmann 1924 · Public Domain v. 29. Judgments are prepared for scorners, their verdict…
v. 29. Judgments are prepared for scorners, their verdict of condemnation is ready, and stripes for the back of fools, for their punishment also is inevitable, since the just God will not be mocked.
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