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Selected Verse: Proverbs 19:29 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Pr 19:29 |
King James |
Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| Their punishment is sure, fixed, and ready (compare Pro 3:34; Pro 10:13). |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
29 Judgments are prepared for scorners,
And stripes for the backs of fools.
שׁפמים never means punishment which a court of justice inflicts, but is always used of the judgments of God, even although they are inflicted by human instrumentality (vid., Ch2 24:24); the singular, which nowhere occurs, is the segolate n. act. שׁפט = שׁפוט, Ch2 20:9, plur. שׁפוּטים. Hitzig's remark: "the judgment may, after Pro 19:25, consist in stripes," is misleading; the stroke, הכּות, there is such as when, e.g., a stroke on the ear is applied to one who despises that which is holy, which, under the circumstances, may be salutary; but it does not fall under the category of shephuthim, nor properly under that of מהלמות. The former are providential chastisements with which history itself, or God in history, visits the despiser of religion; the latter are strokes which are laid on the backs of fools by one who is instructing them, in order, if possible, to bring them to thought and understanding. נכון, here inflected as Niph., is used, as Job 15:23, as meaning to be placed in readiness, and thus to be surely imminent. Regarding mahalǔmoth, vid., at Pro 18:6. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Prepared - Although they be deferred for a time, yet they are treasured up for them. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| 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. |
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.
34 Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly.
6 A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.
23 He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
25 Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.
9 If, when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, (for thy name is in this house,) and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.
24 For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men, and the LORD delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. So they executed judgment against Joash.