Proverbs 26:3

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.

⁹Don’t be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.

²¹What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?

²²Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.

⁵He said to the men of Succoth, “Please give loaves of bread to the people who follow me; for they are faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”

⁶The princes of Succoth said, “Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your army?”

⁷Gideon said, “Therefore when the LORD has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.”

²⁹Penalties are prepared for scoffers, and beatings for the backs of fools.

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

²⁵Flog a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; rebuke one who has understanding, and he will gain knowledge.

⁶and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience when your obedience is made full.

²I have warned previously, and I warn again, as when I was present the second time, so now, being absent, I write to those who have sinned before now and to all the rest that if I come again, I will not spare,