Proverbs 19:29 (BSB)

Judgments are prepared for mockers, and beatings for the backs of fools.

From Proverbs 19. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 19:29

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 19:29: Note, 1. Scorners are fools. Those that ridicule things sacred and serious do but make themselves ridiculous. Their folly shall be manifest unto all men. 2. Those that scorn judgments cannot escape them, Pro 19:28. The unbelief of man shall not make God's threatenings of no effect; those that devour iniquity swallow the hook with the bait.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 19:29: Judgments are prepared for scorners,.... Either by the civil magistrate, or by the Lord, and indeed by both; and if they miss the one, they will certainly meet the other; though they mock at present punishment and a future judgment, yet everlasting fire is prepared for them, Mat 25:41; and stripes for the back of fools; as scorners are; which shall be inflicted on them...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 19:29: Their punishment is sure, fixed, and ready (compare Pro 3:34; Pro 10:13). Next: Proverbs Chapter 20
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 19:29: Pro 19:29 29 Judgments are prepared for scorners, And stripes for the backs of fools. שׁפמים never means punishment which a court of justice inflicts, but is always used of the judgments of God, even although they are inflicted by human instrumentality (vid., 2Ch 24:24); the singular, which nowhere occurs, is the segolate n. act. שׁפט = שׁפוט, 2Ch 20:9, plur. שׁפוּטים.