Verse 3

A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back.

Referenced Verses

• Ps 32:9 : 9 Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.
• Prov 10:13 : 13 In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
• Prov 17:10 : 10 A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.
• Prov 19:25 : 25 Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.
• Prov 19:29 : 29 Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
• Prov 27:22 : 22 Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
• 1 Cor 4:21 : 21 What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?
• 2 Cor 10:6 : 6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
• 2 Cor 13:2 : 2 I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:
• Judg 8:5-7 : 5 And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they be faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian. 6 And the princes of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thine army? 7 And Gideon said, Therefore when the LORD hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.