Proverbs 26:3
 Proverbs 26:3 
New International Version (©2011)
A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the backs of fools!

New Living Translation (©2007)
Guide a horse with a whip, a donkey with a bridle, and a fool with a rod to his back!

English Standard Version (©2001)
A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
A whip is for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, And a rod for the back of fools.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the backs of fools.

International Standard Version (©2012)
A whip is for the horses, a bridle is for the donkey, a rod is for the back of fools.

NET Bible (©2006)
A whip for the horse and a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the backs of fools!

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
A whip for a horse and a goad for a donkey, so also is a rod for the fool.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
A whip is for the horse, a bridle is for the donkey, and a rod is for the backs of fools.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the fool's back.

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

American Standard Version
A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, And a rod for the back of fools.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A whip for a horse, and a snaffle for an ass, and a rod for the back of fools.

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

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

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

World English Bible
A whip is for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools!

Young's Literal Translation
A whip is for a horse, a bridle for an ass, And a rod for the back of fools.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

A whip for the horse,.... One that is dull of going, or refractory and wants breaking;

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Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament

3 A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass,

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Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

A whip for the horse - Correction is as suitable to a fool, as a whip is for a horse, or a bridle for an ass.


Geneva Study Bible

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


Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

3. The rod is as much needed by fools and as well suited to them, as whips and bridles are for beasts.


Proverbs 26:3 Parallel Commentaries
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Similitudes and Instructions
1As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor is not seemly for a fool. 2As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come. 3A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back.

Psalm 32:9 Do not be like the horse or the mule, which have no understanding but must be controlled by bit and bridle or they will not come to you.
Proverbs 10:13 Wisdom is found on the lips of the discerning, but a rod is for the back of one who has no sense.
Proverbs 19:29 Penalties are prepared for mockers, and beatings for the backs of fools.