Verse 3

A whip is for a horse, a bridle for an ass, And a rod for the back of fools.

Referenced Verses

• Ps 32:9 : 9 Be ye not as a horse -- as a mule, Without understanding, With bridle and bit, its ornaments, to curb, Not to come near unto thee.
• Prov 10:13 : 13 In the lips of the intelligent is wisdom found, And a rod `is' for the back of him who is lacking understanding.
• Prov 17:10 : 10 Rebuke cometh down on the intelligent More than a hundred stripes on a fool.
• Prov 19:25 : 25 A scorner smite, and the simple acts prudently, And give reproof to the intelligent, He understandeth knowledge.
• Prov 19:29 : 29 Judgments have been prepared for scorners, And stripes for the back of fools!
• Prov 27:22 : 22 If thou dost beat the foolish in a mortar, Among washed things -- with a pestle, His folly turneth not aside from off him.
• 1 Cor 4:21 : 21 what do ye wish? with a rod shall I come unto you, or in love, with a spirit also of meekness?
• 2 Cor 10:6 : 6 and being in readiness to avenge every disobedience, whenever your obedience may be fulfilled.
• 2 Cor 13:2 : 2 I have said before, and I say `it' before, as being present, the second time, and being absent, now, do I write to those having sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare,
• Judg 8:5-7 : 5 and he saith to the men of Succoth, `Give, I pray you, cakes of bread to the people who `are' at my feet, for they `are' wearied, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna kings of Midian.' 6 And the heads of Succoth say, `Is the hand of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thy hand, that we give to thy host bread?' 7 And Gideon saith, `Therefore -- in Jehovah's giving Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand -- I have threshed your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness, and with the threshing instruments.'