Proverbs 19:29

³A whip is for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools!

¹³Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has discernment, but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding.

¹²If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. If you mock, you alone will bear it.

⁴⁰Beware therefore, lest that come on you which is spoken in the prophets: ⁴¹‘Behold, you scoffers! Wonder and perish, for I work a work in your days, a work which you will in no way believe, if one declares it to you.’”

³knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts ⁴and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.” ⁵For they willfully forget that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water by the word of God, ⁶by which means the world that existed then, being overflowed with water, perished. ⁷But the heavens that exist now and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

¹⁰A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding than a hundred lashes into a fool.

³⁴Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.

⁶for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”

⁶A fool’s lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings.

²²Now therefore don’t be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, GOD ^[+] of Armies, on the whole earth.