¹⁵ A person with good sense is respected;
    a treacherous person is headed for destruction.^[a]

¹⁹ But the way of the wicked is like total darkness.
    They have no idea what they are stumbling over.

¹⁹ Your wickedness will bring its own punishment.
    Your turning from me will shame you.
You will see what an evil, bitter thing it is
    to abandon the Lord your God and not to fear him.
    I, the Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, have spoken!

¹⁰ Fear of the Lord is the foundation of true wisdom.
    All who obey his commandments will grow in wisdom.

Praise him forever!

¹⁰ Whoever abandons the right path will be severely disciplined;
    whoever hates correction will die.

⁹ For there your ancestors tested and tried my patience,
    even though they saw everything I did.
¹⁰ For forty years I was angry with them, and I said,
‘They are a people whose hearts turn away from me.
    They refuse to do what I tell them.’
¹¹ So in my anger I took an oath:
    ‘They will never enter my place of rest.’”