So Gideon said, "All right! When the LORD has handed Zebah and Zalmunna over to me, I will beat you with thorns and briers from the desert!"

Intelligent people talk sense, but stupid people need to be punished.

A conceited fool is sure to get a beating.

(SEE 2:3)

Even the best and most honest of them are as worthless as weeds. The day has come when God will punish the people, as he warned them through their watchmen, the prophets. Now they are in confusion.