Proverbs 26:3
A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool’s back.
King James Version with Apocrypha
In The King James Version
A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool’s back.
In Context
2As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.
4Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
Cross References
Judges 8:5And 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.
Proverbs 10:13In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
Proverbs 19:25Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.
Proverbs 27:22Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
2 Corinthians 10:6And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 26:3
2 As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come. Here is, 1. The folly of passion. It makes men scatter causeless curses, wishing ill to others upon presumption that they are bad and have done ill, when either they mistake the person or misunderstand the fact, or they call evil good and good evil. Give honour to a fool, and he thunders out his anathemas against all that he is disgusted with, right or wrong. Great men, when wicked, think they have a privilege to keep… Read the whole commentary →