He that brings forth wisdom from his lips smites the fool with a rod.

A threat breaks down the heart of a wise man, but a fool, though scourged, understands not.

When a pestilent character is scourged, a simple man is made wiser, and if you reprove a wise man, he will understand discretion.

Though you scourge a fool, disgracing him in the midst of the council, you will [still] in no way remove his folly from him.

And he said to the men of Soccoth, Give some bread to feed this people that follow me; because they are faint, and behold, I am following after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.

And Gideon said, Therefore when the Lord gives Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then will I tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness, and the Barkenim.

Be not as the horse and mule, which have no understanding; [but you must] constrain their jaws with bit and bridle, lest they should come near to you.

What do you desire? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love, and a spirit of gentleness?

and being ready to avenge every act of disobedience, whenever your obedience is fulfilled.

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