New Revised Standard Version
Condemnation is ready for scoffers, and flogging for the backs of fools.

Contemporary English Version
A stupid fool should expect to be punished.

New American Bible
Rods are prepared for scoffers, and blows for the backs of fools.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Judgments are prepared for scorners: and striking hammers for the bodies of fools.

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

judgements

Proverbs 3:34 The wise shall possess glory: the promotion of fools is disgrace.

Proverbs 9:12 A foolish woman and clamorous, and full of allurements, and knowing nothing at all,

Isaiah 28:22 And now do not mock, lest your bonds be tied strait. For I have heard of the Lord the God of hosts a consumption and a cutting short upon all the earth.

Isaiah 29:20 For he that did prevail hath failed, the scorner is consumed, and they are all cut off that watched for iniquity:

Acts 13:40,41 Beware, therefore, lest that come upon you which is spoken in the prophets: . . .

2 Peter 3:3-7 Knowing this first: That in the last days there shall come deceitful scoffers, walking after their own lusts, . . .

and

Proverbs 7:22 Till the arrow pierce his liver: as if a bird should make haste to the snare, and knoweth not that his life is in danger.

Proverbs 10:13 Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the fool is next to confusion.

Proverbs 17:10 A reproof availeth more with a wise man, than a hundred stripes with a fool.

Proverbs 26:3 A whip for a horse, and a snaffle for an ass, and a rod for the back of fools.

Hebrews 12:6 For whom the Lord loveth he chastiseth: and he scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.