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Selected Verse: Proverbs 26:3 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Pr 26:3 |
Strong Concordance |
A whip [07752] for the horse [05483], a bridle [04964] for the ass [02543], and a rod [07626] for the fool's [03684] back [01460]. |
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King James |
A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| The rod is as much needed by fools and as well suited to them, as whips and bridles are for beasts. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
3 A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass,
And a rod for the back of fools.
J. D. Michaelis supposes that the order should be reversed: a bridle for the horse, a whip for the ass; but Arnoldi has here discovered the figure of speech merismus (cf. Pro 10:1); and Hitzig, in the manner of the division, the rhythmical reason of the combination (cf. שׁם חם ויפת for שׁם יפת וחם): whip and bridle belong to both, for one whips a horse (Neh 3:2) and also bridles him; one bridles an ass (Psa 32:9) and also whips him (Num 22:28.). As whip and bridle are both serviceable and necessary, so also serviceable and necessary is a rod, לגו כּסילים, Pro 10:13; Pro 19:29. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| A whip for the horse - Correction is as suitable to a fool, as a whip is for a horse, or a bridle for an ass. |
29 Judgments [08201] are prepared [03559] for scorners [03887], and stripes [04112] for the back [01460] of fools [03684].
13 In the lips [08193] of him that hath understanding [0995] wisdom [02451] is found [04672]: but a rod [07626] is for the back [01460] of him that is void [02638] of understanding [03820].
28 And the LORD [03068] opened [06605] the mouth [06310] of the ass [0860], and she said [0559] unto Balaam [01109], What have I done [06213] unto thee, that thou hast smitten [05221] me these three [07969] times [07272]?
9 Be ye not as the horse [05483], or as the mule [06505], which have no understanding [0995]: whose mouth [05716] must be held [01102] in with bit [04964] and bridle [07448], lest [01077] they come near [07126] unto thee.
2 And next unto him [03027] builded [01129] the men [0582] of Jericho [03405]. And next to them builded [01129] Zaccur [02139] the son [01121] of Imri [0566].
1 The proverbs [04912] of Solomon [08010]. A wise [02450] son [01121] maketh a glad [08055] father [01]: but a foolish [03684] son [01121] is the heaviness [08424] of his mother [0517].