⁵ A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

⁸ Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

¹⁷ He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.

12 Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.

¹⁵ The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.

¹⁰ Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die.

²² Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.

³¹ The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise.

³² He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.