Proverbs 26:3

A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the back of fools.

Psalm 32:9

Be ye not as a horse, as a mule, which have no understanding: whose trappings must be bit and bridle, for restraint, or they will not come unto thee.

Proverbs 10:13

In the lips of an intelligent man wisdom is found; but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.

Judges 8:5-7

So he said to the men of Succoth, "Pray, give loaves of bread to the people who follow me; for they are faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmun'na, the kings of Mid'ian."

Proverbs 17:10

A reproof entereth more deeply into him that hath understanding than a hundred stripes into a fool.

Proverbs 19:25

Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware; reprove the intelligent, and he will understand knowledge.

Proverbs 19:29

Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of the foolish.

Proverbs 27:22

If thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his folly depart from him.

1 Corinthians 4:21

What will ye? that I come to you with a rod; or in love, and in a spirit of meekness?

2 Corinthians 10:6

and having in readiness to avenge all disobedience when your obedience shall have been fulfilled.

2 Corinthians 13:2

I have declared beforehand, and I say beforehand as present the second time, and now absent, to those that have sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare.

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Summary

Proverbs 26:3

A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back.

According to our notions, we should rather say, a bridle for the horse, and a whip for the ass; but it should be considered, that the eastern asses are not only much more beautiful, but better goers that ours; and being active and well broken, they need only a bridle to guide them; whereas their horses being scarce, and often caught wild, and badly broken, are much less manageable, and need the correction of the whip

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