Proverbs 19:29
Scourges are preparing for the intemperate, and punishments likewise for fools.
LXX2012 (British)
In The King James Version
Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
In Context
Cross References
Proverbs 1:22So long as the simple cleave to justice, they shall not be ashamed: but the foolish being lovers of haughtiness, having become ungodly have hated knowledge, and are become subject to reproofs.
Proverbs 3:34+ 3:34 See 1 Pet 5:5. The Lord resists the proud; but he gives grace to the humble.
Proverbs 9:12Son, if you be wise for yourself, you shall also be wise for your neighbours; and if you should prove wicked, you alone will bear the evil. + 9:12 Heb. — to beginning of verse 13. He that stays himself upon falsehoods, attempts to rule the winds, and the same will pursue birds in their fight: for he has forsaken the ways of his own vineyard, and he has caused the axles of his own husbandry to go astray; and he goes through a dry desert, and a land appointed to drought, and he gathers barrenness with his hands.
Proverbs 17:10A threat breaks down the heart of a wise man; but a fool, though scourged, understands not.
Proverbs 26:3As a whip for a horse, and a goad for an ass, so is a rod for a simple nation.
Isaiah 29:20The lawless man has come to nothing, and the proud man has perished, and they that transgress mischievously have been utterly destroyed:
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 →