Proverbs 19:24-29

Tree of Life Version

²⁴ The slacker buries his hand in a bowl
and will not even bring it back to his mouth!
²⁵ Strike a scoffer and the naïve will learn caution.
rebuke a discerning person and he will gain knowledge.
²⁶ He who robs his father and drives away his mother
    is a son who brings shame and disgrace!
²⁷ My son, if you stop heeding instruction,
you will stray from words of knowledge.
²⁸ A crooked witness scorns justice,
and a wicked mouth devours iniquity.
²⁹ Judgments are prepared for scoffers,
and floggings for the back of fools.