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Proverbs 19:29

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

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נָכ֣וֹנוּnakhonvbe fittedכּוּןverb, niphal, perfect, 3rd person, common, plural — “be fitted”, a completed actionH3559properly, to be erect (i.e. stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literal (establish, fix, prepare, apply), or figurative (appoint, render sure, proper or prosperous)certain(-ty), confirm, direct, faithfulness, fashion, fasten, firm, be fitted, be fixed, frame, be meet, ordain, order, perfect, (make) preparation, prepare (self), provide, make provision, (be, make) ready, right, set (aright, fast, forth…לַלֵּצִ֣יםlaletsimto make a mockלוּץpreposition, with the article, adjective, adjective, masculine, plural, absolute — “to make a mock”, the ordinary formH3887properly, to make mouths at, i.e. to scoff; hence (from the effort to pronounce a foreign language) to interpret, or (generally) intercedeambassador, have in derision, interpreter, make a mock, mocker, scorn(-er, -ful), teacher.שְׁפָטִ֑יםshefatimjudgmentשֶׁפֶטnoun, common, masculine, plural, absolute — “judgment”, the ordinary formH8201a sentence, i.e. inflictionjudgment.וּ֝מַהֲלֻמ֗וֹתumahalumotand stripeמַהֲלֻמָּהconjunction, noun, common, feminine, plural, absolute — “and stripe”, the ordinary formH4112a blowstripe, stroke.לְגֵ֣וlegevto backגֵּוpreposition, noun, common, masculine, singular, construct — “to back”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH1460the back; by analogy, the middle[phrase] among, back, body.כְּסִילִֽיםkesilimfoolכְּסִילadjective, adjective, masculine, plural, absolute — “fool”, the ordinary formH3684properly, fat, i.e. (figuratively) stupid or sillyfool(-ish).

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

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

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American Standard Version (1901)

Judgments are prepared for scoffers, And stripes for the back of fools.

Young’s Literal Translation

Judgments have been prepared for scorners, And stripes for the back of fools!

World English Bible

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

Darby Translation

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

Douay-Rheims

Judgments are prepared for scorners: and striking hammers for the bodies of fools.

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

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

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

Scourges are preparing for the intemperate, and punishments likewise for fools.

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Ἑτοιμάζονται ἀκολάστοις μάστιγες, καὶ τιμωρίαι ὁμοίως ἄφροσιν.

American Standard Version (1901)

Young’s Literal Translation

World English Bible

Darby Translation

Douay-Rheims

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

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