Proverbs 19:29
Judgments have been prepared for scorners, || And stripes for the back of fools!
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
In Context
28A worthless witness scorns judgment, || And the mouth of the wicked swallows iniquity.
Cross References
Proverbs 1:22“Until when, you simple, do you love simplicity? And have scorners desired their scorning? And do fools hate knowledge?
Proverbs 3:34If He scorns the scorners, || Yet He gives grace to the humble.
Proverbs 9:12If you have been wise, you have been wise for yourself, || And you have scorned—you bear [it] alone.
Proverbs 17:10Rebuke comes down on the intelligent || More than one hundred stripes on a fool.
Proverbs 26:3A whip is for a horse, a bridle for a donkey, || And a rod for the back of fools.
Isaiah 29:20For the terrible one has ceased, || And the scorner has been consumed, || And all watching for iniquity have been cut off,
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 →