¹⁸ Poverty and disgrace are for the one who ignores instruction,
    but one who heeds reproof is honored.^(A)

⁵ A fool despises a parent’s instruction,
    but the one who heeds admonition is prudent.^(A)

³¹ The ear that heeds wholesome admonition
    will lodge among the wise.
³² Those who ignore instruction despise themselves,
    but those who heed admonition gain understanding.^(A)

¹² Like a gold ring or an ornament of gold
    is a wise rebuke to a listening ear.^(A)

¹³ Those who despise a word bring destruction on themselves,
    but those who respect a command will be rewarded.^(A)

⁹ Give instruction^[a] to the wise, and they will become wiser still;
    teach the righteous, and they will gain in learning.^(A)

⁹ lest you give your honor to others
    and your years to the merciless,
¹⁰ and strangers take their fill of your wealth,
    and your labors go to the house of an alien,
¹¹ and at the end of your life you groan,
    when your flesh and body are consumed,
¹² and you say, “Oh, how I hated discipline,
    and my heart despised reproof!^(A)
13 I did not listen to the voice of my teachers
    or incline my ear to my instructors.
¹⁴ Now I am at the point of utter ruin
    in the public assembly.”

³ O Lord, do your eyes not look for truth?
You have struck them,
    but they felt no anguish;
you have consumed them,
    but they refused to take correction.
They have made their faces harder than rock;
    they have refused to turn back.^(A)