³⁴ The Lord mocks the mockers
    but is gracious to the humble.^[a]

⁷ Anyone who rebukes a mocker will get an insult in return.
    Anyone who corrects the wicked will get hurt.
⁸ So don’t bother correcting mockers;
    they will only hate you.
But correct the wise,
    and they will love you.

¹² If you become wise, you will be the one to benefit.
    If you scorn wisdom, you will be the one to suffer.

13 A wise child accepts a parent’s discipline;^[a]
    a mocker refuses to listen to correction.

⁶ A mocker seeks wisdom and never finds it,
    but knowledge comes easily to those with understanding.

¹² Mockers hate to be corrected,
    so they stay away from the wise.

⁵ Those who mock the poor insult their Maker;
    those who rejoice at the misfortune of others will be punished.

²⁵ If you punish a mocker, the simpleminded will learn a lesson;
    if you correct the wise, they will be all the wiser.

²⁴ Mockers are proud and haughty;
    they act with boundless arrogance.

¹⁰ Throw out the mocker, and fighting goes, too.
    Quarrels and insults will disappear.