Proverbs 19:29
Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
In Context
28An ungodly witness scorns judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devours iniquity.
Cross References
Proverbs 1:22How long, all of you simple ones, will all of you love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Proverbs 3:34Surely he scorns the scorners: but he gives grace unto the lowly.
Proverbs 9:12If you be wise, you shall be wise for yourself: but if you scorn, you alone shall bear it.
Proverbs 17:10A reproof enters more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.
Proverbs 26:3A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back.
Isaiah 29:20For the terrible one is brought to nothing, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are 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 →