"A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back."
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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.
A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.
Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.
Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?
And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
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:
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.
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.
A whip for the horse, a mouth-bit for the ass, and a rod for the back of the foolish.
A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the back of fools.
A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back.
A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back.
A whip for the horse, A bridle for the donkey, And a rod for the back of fools!
A whip is for a horse, a bridle for an ass, And a rod for the back of fools.