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New Living Translation

Proverbs 19:29

Punishment is made for mockers, and the backs of fools are made to be beaten.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Infidelity;   Punishment;   Scoffing;   Thompson Chain Reference - Scorners;   The Topic Concordance - Chastisement;   Foolishness;   Judges;   Scorn;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Fools;   Scorning and Mocking;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Fool;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Judgments are prepared for mockers,and beatings for the backs of fools.
Hebrew Names Version
Penalties are prepared for scoffers, And beatings for the backs of fools.
King James Version
Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
English Standard Version
Condemnation is ready for scoffers, and beating for the backs of fools.
New American Standard Bible
Judgments are prepared for scoffers, And beatings for the backs of fools.
New Century Version
People who make fun of wisdom will be punished, and the backs of foolish people will be beaten.
Amplified Bible
Judgments are prepared for scoffers, And beatings for the backs of [thickheaded] fools.
World English Bible
Penalties are prepared for scoffers, And beatings for the backs of fools.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But iudgements are prepared for the scorners, and stripes for the backe of the fooles.
Legacy Standard Bible
Judgments are established for scoffers,And beatings for the back of fools.
Berean Standard Bible
Judgments are prepared for mockers, and beatings for the backs of fools.
Contemporary English Version
Every stupid fool is just waiting to be punished.
Complete Jewish Bible
Judgments are in store for scorners and blows for the backs of fools.
Darby Translation
Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of the foolish.
Easy-to-Read Version
People who show no respect for anything must be brought to justice. You must punish such fools.
George Lamsa Translation
Grief is prepared for those who scoff at justice, and a scourge for foolish people.
Good News Translation
A conceited fool is sure to get a beating.
Lexham English Bible
Judgments are prepared for the scoffers, and flogging for the back of fools.
Literal Translation
Judgments are prepared for scorners, and blows for the backs of fools.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Punyshmentes are ordened for the scornefull, and stripes for fooles backes.
American Standard Version
Judgments are prepared for scoffers, And stripes for the back of fools.
Bible in Basic English
Rods are being made ready for the man of pride, and blows for the back of the foolish.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
King James Version (1611)
Iudgements are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the backe of fooles.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Iudgementes are ordeyned for the scornefull, and stripes for fooles backes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Scourges are preparing for the intemperate, and punishments likewise for fools.
English Revised Version
Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Domes ben maad redi to scorneris; and hameris smytynge ben maad redi to the bodies of foolis.
Update Bible Version
Judgments are prepared for scoffers, And stripes for the back of fools.
Webster's Bible Translation
Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
New English Translation
Judgments are prepared for scorners, and floggings for the backs of fools.
New King James Version
Judgments are prepared for scoffers, And beatings for the backs of fools.
New Life Bible
Ways of punishing are made ready for those who laugh at the truth, and beatings are for the back of fools.
New Revised Standard
Condemnation is ready for scoffers, and flogging for the backs of fools.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Prepared for scoffers, are punishments, and stripes, for the back of dullards.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Judgments are prepared for scorners: and striking hammers for the bodies of fools.
Revised Standard Version
Condemnation is ready for scoffers, and flogging for the backs of fools.
Young's Literal Translation
Judgments have been prepared for scorners, And stripes for the back of fools!
THE MESSAGE
The irreverent have to learn reverence the hard way; only a slap in the face brings fools to attention.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Judgments are prepared for scoffers, And blows for the back of fools.

Contextual Overview

29 Punishment is made for mockers, and the backs of fools are made to be beaten.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Judgments: Proverbs 3:34, Proverbs 9:12, Isaiah 28:22, Isaiah 29:20, Acts 13:40, Acts 13:41, 2 Peter 3:3-7

and: Proverbs 7:22, Proverbs 10:13, Proverbs 17:10, Proverbs 26:3, Hebrews 12:6

Reciprocal: Exodus 7:4 - by great Judges 8:16 - the elders Psalms 1:1 - scornful Proverbs 1:22 - the scorners Proverbs 21:24 - haughty

Cross-References

Genesis 8:1
But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and livestock with him in the boat. He sent a wind to blow across the earth, and the floodwaters began to recede.
Genesis 12:2
I will make you into a great nation. I will bless you and make you famous, and you will be a blessing to others.
Genesis 19:23
Lot reached the village just as the sun was rising over the horizon.
Genesis 19:31
One day the older daughter said to her sister, "There are no men left anywhere in this entire area, so we can't get married like everyone else. And our father will soon be too old to have children.
Genesis 19:32
Come, let's get him drunk with wine, and then we will have sex with him. That way we will preserve our family line through our father."
Genesis 19:33
So that night they got him drunk with wine, and the older daughter went in and had intercourse with her father. He was unaware of her lying down or getting up again.
Genesis 30:22
Then God remembered Rachel's plight and answered her prayers by enabling her to have children.
Deuteronomy 9:5
It is not because you are so good or have such integrity that you are about to occupy their land. The Lord your God will drive these nations out ahead of you only because of their wickedness, and to fulfill the oath he swore to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Nehemiah 13:14
Remember this good deed, O my God, and do not forget all that I have faithfully done for the Temple of my God and its services.
Nehemiah 13:22
Then I commanded the Levites to purify themselves and to guard the gates in order to preserve the holiness of the Sabbath. Remember this good deed also, O my God! Have compassion on me according to your great and unfailing love.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Judgments are prepared for scorners,.... Either by the civil magistrate, or by the Lord, and indeed by both; and if they miss the one, they will certainly meet the other; though they mock at present punishment and a future judgment, yet everlasting fire is prepared for them, Matthew 25:41;

and stripes for the back of fools; as scorners are; which shall be inflicted on them sooner or later; if they are not stricken with the stripes of men, they shall endure the strokes of divine justice and vengeance hereafter.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 19:29. 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.


 
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