THEOSISProverbs 26:3Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
A whip for a horse, and a snaffle for an ass, and a rod for the back of fools.
שׁ֣וֹט לַ֭סּוּס מֶ֣תֶג לַחֲמ֑וֹר וְ֝שֵׁ֗בֶט לְגֵ֣ו כְּסִילִֽים׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 10:13In the lips of the wise is wisdom found: and a rod on the back of him that wanteth sense.
- 1 Cor 4:21What will you? Shall I come to you with a rod? Or in charity and in the spirit of meekness?
- Ps 32 (31):9
- Judg 8:5And he said to the men of Soccoth: Give, I beseech you, bread to the people that is with me, for they are faint: that we may pursue Zebee, and Salmana, the kings of Madian.
- Judg 8:7And he said to them: When the Lord therefore shall have delivered Zebee and Salmana into my hands, I will thresh your flesh with the thorns and briers of the desert.
- Prov 17:10A reproof availeth more with a wise man, than a hundred stripes with a fool.
- Prov 19:25The wicked man being scourged, the fool shall be wiser: but if thou rebuke a wise man, he will understand discipline.
- 2 Cor 10:6And having in readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience shall be fulfilled.