In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.

Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.

What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?

I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:

Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.

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

A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.

And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

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

And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they be faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian. And the princes of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thine army? And Gideon said, Therefore when the LORD hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.