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Proverbs 26:3 KJV
Proverbs · chapter 26 · verse 3
A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool’s back.Proverbs 26:3 · King James Version
Proverbs 26:3 in context
1As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.
2As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.
3A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool’s back.
4Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
5Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- bridlemethega bitH4964 →
- fool'skᵉçîylproperly, fatH3684 →
- horseçûwça horseH5483 →
- whipshôwṭa lashH7752 →
- asschămôwra male assH2543 →
- rodshêbeṭa scionH7626 →
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Here, 1. Wicked men are compared to the horse and the ass, so brutish are they, so unreasonable, so unruly, and not to be governed but by force or fear, so low has sin sunk men, so much below themselves.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary