Proverbs Chapter 19 verse 29 Holy Bible
Judgments are prepared for scoffers, And stripes for the back of fools.
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Rods are being made ready for the man of pride, and blows for the back of the foolish.
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Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of the foolish.
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Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
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Penalties are prepared for scoffers, And beatings for the backs of fools.
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Judgments have been prepared for scorners, And stripes for the back of fools!
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 29. - Judgments are prepared for scorners (see on ver. 25). The judgments here are those inflicted by the providence of God, as in Proverbs 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. Proverbs 10:13: 26:3). We had the word here rendered "stripes" (מַהַלוּמות mahalumoth) in Proverbs 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, Οὐδεὶς ἀνθρώπων ἀδικῶν τίσιν οὐκ ἀποτίσει, to Horace's "Raro antecedentem scelestum," etc. (See on Proverbs 20:30, where, however, the punishment is of human infliction.)
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(29) Judgments are prepared for scorners.--(Comp. Proverbs 19:25.)Fools.--See above on Proverbs 1:22.
