Proverbs 19:29
New International Version
Penalties are prepared for mockers, and beatings for the backs of fools.

New Living Translation
Punishment is made for mockers, and the backs of fools are made to be beaten.

English Standard Version
Condemnation is ready for scoffers, and beating for the backs of fools.

Berean Standard Bible
Judgments are prepared for mockers, and beatings for the backs of fools.

King James Bible
Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.

New King James Version
Judgments are prepared for scoffers, And beatings for the backs of fools.

New American Standard Bible
Judgments are prepared for scoffers, And beatings for the backs of fools.

NASB 1995
Judgments are prepared for scoffers, And blows for the back of fools.

NASB 1977
Judgments are prepared for scoffers, And blows for the back of fools.

Legacy Standard Bible
Judgments are established for scoffers, And beatings for the back of fools.

Amplified Bible
Judgments are prepared for scoffers, And beatings for the backs of [thickheaded] fools.

Christian Standard Bible
Judgments are prepared for mockers, and beatings for the backs of fools.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Judgments are prepared for mockers, and beatings for the backs of fools.

American Standard Version
Judgments are prepared for scoffers, And stripes for the back of fools.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Pains are prepared for those that are loud in judgment, and affliction for foolish people.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Scourges are preparing for the intemperate, and punishments likewise for fools.

Contemporary English Version
A stupid fool should expect to be punished.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Judgments are prepared for scorners: and striking hammers for the bodies of fools.

English Revised Version
Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Punishments are set for mockers and beatings for the backs of fools.

Good News Translation
A conceited fool is sure to get a beating.

International Standard Version
Condemnation is appropriate for mockers, just as beatings are for the backs of fools.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Judgments are prepared for scorners, And stripes for the back of fools.

Literal Standard Version
Judgments have been prepared for scorners, | And stripes for the back of fools!

Majority Standard Bible
Judgments are prepared for mockers, and beatings for the backs of fools.

New American Bible
Rods are prepared for scoffers, and blows for the backs of fools.

NET Bible
Judgments are prepared for scorners, and floggings for the backs of fools.

New Revised Standard Version
Condemnation is ready for scoffers, and flogging for the backs of fools.

New Heart English Bible
Penalties are prepared for scoffers, and beatings for the backs of fools.

Webster's Bible Translation
Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.

World English Bible
Penalties are prepared for scoffers, and beatings for the backs of fools.

Young's Literal Translation
Judgments have been prepared for scorners, And stripes for the back of fools!

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Context
The Man of Integrity
28A corrupt witness mocks justice, and a wicked mouth swallows iniquity. 29Judgments are prepared for mockers, and beatings for the backs of fools.

Cross References
Deuteronomy 25:2
If the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall have him lie down and be flogged in his presence with the number of lashes his crime warrants.

Psalm 1:1
Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers.

Proverbs 9:12
If you are wise, you are wise to your own advantage; but if you scoff, you alone will bear the consequences.

Proverbs 10:13
Wisdom is found on the lips of the discerning, but a rod is for the back of him who lacks judgment.

Proverbs 18:6
A fool's lips bring him strife, and his mouth invites a beating.

Proverbs 26:3
A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the backs of fools!


Treasury of Scripture

Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.

judgements

Proverbs 3:34
Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly.

Proverbs 9:12
If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.

Isaiah 28:22
Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.

and

Proverbs 7:22
He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

Proverbs 10:13
In 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 17:10
A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.

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(29) Judgments are prepared for scorners.--(Comp. Proverbs 19:25.)

Fools.--See above on Proverbs 1:22.

Verse 29. - Judgments are prepared for scorners (see on ver. 25). The judgments here are those inflicted by the providence of God, as in Proverbs 3:34. Scorners may deride and affect to scorn the judgments of God and man, but they are warned that retribution awaits them. And stripes for the back of fools; Vulgate, Et mallei percutientes stultorum corporibus (comp. Proverbs 10:13: 26:3). We had the word here rendered "stripes" (מַהַלוּמות mahalumoth) in Proverbs 18:6. The certainty of punishment in the case of transgressors is a truth often insisted on even by heathens. Examples will occur to all readers, from the old Greek oracle, Οὐδεὶς ἀνθρώπων ἀδικῶν τίσιν οὐκ ἀποτίσει, to Horace's "Raro antecedentem scelestum," etc. (See on Proverbs 20:30, where, however, the punishment is of human infliction.)



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Judgments
שְׁפָטִ֑ים (šə·p̄ā·ṭîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 8201: A sentence, infliction

are prepared
נָכ֣וֹנוּ (nā·ḵō·w·nū)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 3559: To be erect

for mockers,
לַלֵּצִ֣ים (lal·lê·ṣîm)
Preposition-l, Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 3887: Ambassador, have in derision, interpreter, make a mock, mocker

and beatings
וּ֝מַהֲלֻמ֗וֹת (ū·ma·hă·lu·mō·wṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 4112: Strokes, blows

for the backs
לְגֵ֣ו (lə·ḡêw)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1460: The back, the middle

of fools.
כְּסִילִֽים׃ (kə·sî·lîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 3684: Stupid fellow, dullard, fool


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