BSB
Judgments are prepared for mockers, and beatings for the backs of fools.
WEB
Penalties are prepared for scoffers, and beatings for the backs of fools.
KJV
Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
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Verse 29
Proverbs 19:29
Note, 1. Scorners are fools. Those that ridicule things sacred and serious do but make themselves ridiculous. Their folly shall be manifest unto all men. 2. Those that scorn judgments cannot escape them, Pro 19:28. The unbelief of man shall not make God's threatenings of no effect; those that devour iniquity swallow the hook with the bait. The civil magistrate has judgments prepared for scorners, for otherwise he would bear the sword in vain; but if he be remiss, and connive at sin, yet God's judgments slumber not; they are prepared, Mat 25:41.
Cross-references: Prov 19:28 · Matt 25:41