In the lips of the intelligent is wisdom found, And a rod [is] for the back of him who is lacking understanding.

Rebuke cometh down on the intelligent More than a hundred stripes on a fool.

A scorner smite, and the simple acts prudently, And give reproof to the intelligent, He understandeth knowledge.

If thou dost beat the foolish in a mortar, Among washed things -- with a pestle, His folly turneth not aside from off him.

and he saith to the men of Succoth, 'Give, I pray you, cakes of bread to the people who [are] at my feet, for they [are] wearied, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna kings of Midian.'

And Gideon saith, 'Therefore -- in Jehovah's giving Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand -- I have threshed your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness, and with the threshing instruments.'

Be ye not as a horse -- as a mule, Without understanding, With bridle and bit, its ornaments, to curb, Not to come near unto thee.

what do ye wish? with a rod shall I come unto you, or in love, with a spirit also of meekness?

and being in readiness to avenge every disobedience, whenever your obedience may be fulfilled.

I have said before, and I say [it] before, as being present, the second time, and being absent, now, do I write to those having sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare,