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

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

⁷ The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.

²⁰ For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

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

¹² And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

¹³ In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.

¹⁴ I the Lord have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord God.

³⁵ They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

13 A wise son heareth his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.

³⁰ They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.