Proverbs 26:3
Unto the horse belongeth a whip, to the asse a brydle: and a rod to the fooles backe.
Additional Resources
Referenced Verses
- Ps 32:9 : 9 Be ye not lyke a horse or lyke a mule whiche haue no vnderstanding: whose mouthes must be holden with bit and brydle, lest they fall vpon thee.
- Prov 10:13 : 13 In the lippes of him that hath vnderstanding, a man shall finde wysdome: but the rod belongeth to the backe of the foolishe.
- Prov 17:10 : 10 One reproofe more feareth a wise man, then an hundred stripes doth a foole.
- Prov 19:25 : 25 If thou smytest a scornefull person, the ignoraunt shall take better heede: and if thou reprouest one that hath vnderstanding, he wyll be the wyser.
- Prov 19:29 : 29 Iudgementes are ordeyned for the scornefull, and stripes for fooles backes.
- Prov 27:22 : 22 Though thou shouldest bray a foole with a pestel in a morter like furmentie corne: yet wyll not his foolishnes go from hym.
- 1 Cor 4:21 : 21 What wyl ye? Shal I come vnto you with a rodde, or in loue and in the spirite of mekenesse?
- 2 Cor 10:6 : 6 And are readie to take vengeaunce on all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfylled.
- 2 Cor 13:2 : 2 I tolde you before, and tell you before, as though I had ben present with you the seconde tyme, so write I nowe beyng absent, to them which in time past haue sinned, and to all other, that yf I come agayne, I wyll not spare,
- Judg 8:5-7 : 5 And he sayd vnto ye men of Sucoth: Geue I pray you, takes of bread vnto ye people that folow me, for they be fayntie, that I may folowe after Zebah, and Zalmana, kynges of Madian. 6 And the lordes of Sucoth sayde: Are the handes of Zebah and Zalmana now in thyne handes, that we should geue bread vnto thyne armie? 7 Gedeon sayde: Therfore when the Lord hath deliuered Zebah and Zalmana into mine hande, I will teare the fleshe of you with the thornes of the wildernes, and with bryers.
Similar Verses (AI)
These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.
- Prov 26:4-118 verses81%
4 Geue not the foole an aunswere after his foolishnes, lest thou become like vnto him.
5 But make the foole an aunswere to his foolishnesse, lest he be wyse in his owne conceipt.
6 As he that cutteth of his messengers feete endamageth himselfe: so doth he that committeth a message to a foole.
7 Like as in a lame man his legges are not equall: euen so is a parable in a fooles mouth.
8 He that setteth a foole in hye dignitie, that is euen as if a man would bynde a stone in a sling.
9 As is a thorne in the hande of a drunkarde: so is a parable in a fooles mouth.
10 The mightie that fourmed al thinges, rewardeth the fooles & transgressours.
11 Like as the dogge turneth agayne to his owne vomite: euen so a foole beginneth his foolishnes agayne afreshe.
- 79%
29 Iudgementes are ordeyned for the scornefull, and stripes for fooles backes.
- 78%
15 Foolishnes is bounde in the heart of the chylde: and the rodde of correction shall driue it away.
- 77%
3 In the mouth of the foolishe is the rodde of pryde: but the lippes of the wyse wyll preserue them.
- 76%
13 In the lippes of him that hath vnderstanding, a man shall finde wysdome: but the rod belongeth to the backe of the foolishe.
- 75%
9 Be ye not lyke a horse or lyke a mule whiche haue no vnderstanding: whose mouthes must be holden with bit and brydle, lest they fall vpon thee.
- 74%
3 Beholde, we put bittes in the horses mouthes, that they may obey vs, and we turne about all the body of them:
- 74%
16 But was rebuked of his iniquitie. The dumbe beast, and vsed to the yoke, speaking with mans voyce, forbad the madnesse of the prophete.
- 73%
6 A fooles lippes come with brawling, and his mouth prouoketh vnto stripes.
- 73%
10 One reproofe more feareth a wise man, then an hundred stripes doth a foole.
- Prov 27:22-232 verses73%
22 Though thou shouldest bray a foole with a pestel in a morter like furmentie corne: yet wyll not his foolishnes go from hym.
23 Be thou diligent to knowe the state of thy cattell thy selfe, and loke well to thy flockes.
- 72%
5 A foole dispiseth his fathers correction: but he that taketh heede when he is reproued, shall haue the more vnderstandyng.
- 72%
10 Pleasure is not seemely for a foole: muche lesse for a bondman to haue rule of princes.
- 72%
3 The stone is heauie, and the sande wayghtie: but a fooles wrath is heauier then them both.
- Prov 23:13-142 verses72%
13 Withholde not correction from the chylde: for if thou beatest hym with the rodde, he shall not dye thereof:
14 If thou smyte hym with the rodde, thou shalt deliuer his soule from hell.
- 72%
24 He that spareth the rodde, hateth his sonne: but who so loueth hym, chasteneth hym betymes.
- 71%
25 An vndiscrete sonne is a griefe vnto his father: and an heauinesse vnto his mother.
- 71%
11 A foole vttereth all his mynde at once: but a wyse man kepeth it in tyll afterwarde.
- 71%
23 A foole doth wickedly, and maketh but a sport of it: but wisdome ruleth the man that hath vnderstandyng.
- 71%
22 A seruaunt that beareth rule, a foole that is full fedde,
- 71%
29 Who so maketh disquietnesse in his owne house, he shal haue winde for his heritage: and the foole shalbe seruaunt to the wise.
- 71%
9 Tell nothing into the eares of a foole: for he wyll despise the wysdome of thy wordes.
- 71%
15 The rodde and correction geueth wisdome: but a childe left to his owne will, bryngeth his mother to shame.
- 71%
18 As he that fayneth him selfe mad, casteth firebrandes, deadly arrowes and dartes:
- 70%
3 The foolishnesse of man paruerteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the Lorde.
- 70%
2 The tongue of such as be wise vseth knoweledge aryght: as for a foolishe mouth it babbleth out nothyng but foolishnesse.
- 70%
12 It were better to meete a shee beare robbed of her whelpes, then a foole trusting in his foolishnesse.
- 70%
21 He that begetteth a foole, begetteth his sorowe: and the father of a foole can haue no ioy.
- 70%
25 If thou smytest a scornefull person, the ignoraunt shall take better heede: and if thou reprouest one that hath vnderstanding, he wyll be the wyser.
- 70%
20 Seest thou a man that is hastie to speake vnaduisedly? there is more hope in a foole then in hym.
- 70%
27 And when the asse sawe the angell of the Lorde, she fell downe vnder Balaam: and Balaam was wroth, & smote the asse with a staffe.
- 70%
1 Lyke as snowe is not meete in sommer and rayne in haruest: euen so is worship vnseemely for a foole.
- Prov 12:15-162 verses70%
15 The way of a foole is strayght in his owne eyes: but he that hearkeneth vnto counsayle is wise.
16 A foole vttereth his wrath in all the haste: but a discrete man couereth his owne shame.
- 70%
23 And when the asse sawe the angell of the Lord stand in the way, and hauyng his sworde drawen in his hand, the asse turned aside out of the way, and went out into the fielde: And Balaam smote the asse, to turne her into the way.
- 70%
17 Foolish men are plagued for their mischeuous wayes: & for their wickednes.
- 70%
1 He that is stifnecked and wyll not be refourmed, shall sodaynly be destroyed without any helpe.
- 70%
16 A wise man doth all thynges with discretion: but a foole wyll declare his follie.
- 70%
11 My sonne refuse not the chastening of the Lorde, neither faynt when thou art corrected of hym:
- 69%
2 The noyse of the whippe, the noyse of ratling of wheales, the praunsing of horses, and the iumping of charets: