12 Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge,
But he who hates correction is stupid.

⁹⁷ Oh, how I love Your law!
^(A)It is my meditation all the day.
⁹⁸ You, through Your commandments, make me ^(B)wiser than my enemies;
For they are ever with me.
⁹⁹ I have more understanding than all my teachers,
^(C)For Your testimonies are my meditation.
^100 (D)I understand more than the ^[a]ancients,
Because I keep Your precepts.

18 A man who isolates himself seeks his own desire;
He rages against all ^[a]wise judgment.

⁹ Do not be like the ^(A)horse or like the mule,
Which have no understanding,
Which must be harnessed with bit and bridle,
Else they will not come near you.

^3 (A)The ox knows its owner
And the donkey its master’s ^[a]crib;
But Israel ^(B)does not know,
My people do not ^[b]consider.”

¹² And say:
“How I have hated instruction,
And my heart despised correction!
¹³ I have not obeyed the voice of my teachers,
Nor inclined my ear to those who instructed me!