3 My son, forget not my law;
but let thine heart keep my commandments:
² for length of days, and long life, and peace,
shall they add to thee.

⁷ He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame:
and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.
⁸ Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee:
rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
⁹ Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser:
teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.

⁸ The wise in heart will receive commandments:
    but a prating fool shall fall.

¹⁵ The way of a fool is right in his own eyes:
    but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.

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

¹³ Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed:
    but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.

³¹ The ear that heareth the reproof of life
    abideth among the wise.

¹⁰ A reproof entereth more into a wise man
    than an hundred stripes into a fool.

¹⁶ He that keepeth the commandment keepeth his own soul;
    but he that despiseth his ways shall die.

²⁰ Hear counsel, and receive instruction,
    that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.