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Geneva Bible

Proverbs 19:29

But iudgements are prepared for the scorners, and stripes for the backe of the fooles.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Infidelity;   Punishment;   Scoffing;   Thompson Chain Reference - Scorners;   The Topic Concordance - Chastisement;   Foolishness;   Judges;   Scorn;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Fools;   Scorning and Mocking;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Fool;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Judgments are prepared for mockers,and beatings for the backs of fools.
Hebrew Names Version
Penalties are prepared for scoffers, And beatings for the backs of fools.
King James Version
Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
English Standard Version
Condemnation is ready for scoffers, and beating for the backs of fools.
New American Standard Bible
Judgments are prepared for scoffers, And beatings for the backs of fools.
New Century Version
People who make fun of wisdom will be punished, and the backs of foolish people will be beaten.
Amplified Bible
Judgments are prepared for scoffers, And beatings for the backs of [thickheaded] fools.
World English Bible
Penalties are prepared for scoffers, And beatings for the backs of fools.
Legacy Standard Bible
Judgments are established for scoffers,And beatings for the back of fools.
Berean Standard Bible
Judgments are prepared for mockers, and beatings for the backs of fools.
Contemporary English Version
Every stupid fool is just waiting to be punished.
Complete Jewish Bible
Judgments are in store for scorners and blows for the backs of fools.
Darby Translation
Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of the foolish.
Easy-to-Read Version
People who show no respect for anything must be brought to justice. You must punish such fools.
George Lamsa Translation
Grief is prepared for those who scoff at justice, and a scourge for foolish people.
Good News Translation
A conceited fool is sure to get a beating.
Lexham English Bible
Judgments are prepared for the scoffers, and flogging for the back of fools.
Literal Translation
Judgments are prepared for scorners, and blows for the backs of fools.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Punyshmentes are ordened for the scornefull, and stripes for fooles backes.
American Standard Version
Judgments are prepared for scoffers, And stripes for the back of fools.
Bible in Basic English
Rods are being made ready for the man of pride, and blows for the back of the foolish.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
King James Version (1611)
Iudgements are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the backe of fooles.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Iudgementes are ordeyned for the scornefull, and stripes for fooles backes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Scourges are preparing for the intemperate, and punishments likewise for fools.
English Revised Version
Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Domes ben maad redi to scorneris; and hameris smytynge ben maad redi to the bodies of foolis.
Update Bible Version
Judgments are prepared for scoffers, And stripes for the back of fools.
Webster's Bible Translation
Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
New English Translation
Judgments are prepared for scorners, and floggings for the backs of fools.
New King James Version
Judgments are prepared for scoffers, 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.
New Life Bible
Ways of punishing are made ready for those who laugh at the truth, and beatings are for the back of fools.
New Revised Standard
Condemnation is ready for scoffers, and flogging for the backs of fools.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Prepared for scoffers, are punishments, and stripes, for the back of dullards.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Judgments are prepared for scorners: and striking hammers for the bodies of fools.
Revised Standard Version
Condemnation is ready for scoffers, and flogging for the backs of fools.
Young's Literal Translation
Judgments have been prepared for scorners, And stripes for the back of fools!
THE MESSAGE
The irreverent have to learn reverence the hard way; only a slap in the face brings fools to attention.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Judgments are prepared for scoffers, And blows for the back of fools.

Contextual Overview

29 But iudgements are prepared for the scorners, and stripes for the backe of the fooles.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Judgments: Proverbs 3:34, Proverbs 9:12, Isaiah 28:22, Isaiah 29:20, Acts 13:40, Acts 13:41, 2 Peter 3:3-7

and: Proverbs 7:22, Proverbs 10:13, Proverbs 17:10, Proverbs 26:3, Hebrews 12:6

Reciprocal: Exodus 7:4 - by great Judges 8:16 - the elders Psalms 1:1 - scornful Proverbs 1:22 - the scorners Proverbs 21:24 - haughty

Cross-References

Genesis 8:1
Nowe God remembred Noah and euery beast, and all the cattell that was with him in the Arke: therefore God made a winde to passe vpon the earth, and the waters ceased.
Genesis 12:2
And I will make of thee a great nation, and will blesse thee, and make thy name great, and thou shalt be a blessing.
Genesis 19:23
The sunne did rise vpon the earth, when Lot entred into Zoar.
Genesis 19:31
And the elder saide vnto the yonger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth, to come in vnto vs after the maner of all ye earth.
Genesis 19:32
Come, wee will make our father drinke wine, and lie with him, that we may preserue seede of our father.
Genesis 19:33
So they made their father drinke wine that night, and the elder went and lay with her father: but he perceiued not, neither whe she lay downe, neither when she rose vp.
Genesis 30:22
And God remembred Rahel, and God heard her, and opened her wombe.
Deuteronomy 9:5
For thou entrest not to inherite their lande for thy righteousnesse, or for thy vpright heart: but for the wickednesse of those nations, the Lord thy God doth cast them out before thee, and that he might performe the worde which the Lord thy God sware vnto thy fathers, Abraham, Izhak, and Iacob.
Nehemiah 13:14
Remember me, O my God, herein, & wipe not out my kindenes that I haue shewed on the house of my God, and on the offices thereof.
Nehemiah 13:22
And I sayde vnto the Leuites, that they should clense themselues, and that they shoulde come and keepe the gates, to sanctifie the Sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, concerning this, & pardon me according to thy great mercy.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Judgments are prepared for scorners,.... Either by the civil magistrate, or by the Lord, and indeed by both; and if they miss the one, they will certainly meet the other; though they mock at present punishment and a future judgment, yet everlasting fire is prepared for them, Matthew 25:41;

and stripes for the back of fools; as scorners are; which shall be inflicted on them sooner or later; if they are not stricken with the stripes of men, they shall endure the strokes of divine justice and vengeance hereafter.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 19:29. Stripes for the back of fools.Profane and wicked men expose themselves to the punishments denounced against such by just laws. Avoid, therefore, both their company and their end.


 
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