Proverbs 19:29
Punishments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
In Context
28An ungodly witness scorneth at justice, and the mouth of the wicked swalloweth mischief.
Cross References
Proverbs 1:22How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners take their delight in scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Proverbs 3:34If [it concern] the scornful he will himself render them a scorn; but unto the lowly doth he give grace.
Proverbs 9:12If thou art become wise, thou art wise for thyself; but if thou art a scorner, thou alone wilt have to bear it.”
Proverbs 17:10A reproof penetrateth more deeply into a wise man, than a hundred stripes into a fool.
Proverbs 26:3A whip is for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back.
Isaiah 29:20For the tyrant is no more, and consumed is the scorner, and cut off are all that watch for injustice;
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 19:29
28 An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity. Here is a description of the worst of sinners, whose hearts are fully set in them to do evil. 1. They set that at defiance which would deter and detain them from sin: An ungodly witness is one that bears false witness against his neighbour, and will forswear himself to do another a mischief, in which there is not only great injustice, but great impiety; this is one of the worst of men. Or an ungodly witness is one that… Read the whole commentary →