¹² You will say, “How I hated discipline!
    How my heart spurned correction!^(A)
13 I would not obey my teachers
    or turn my ear to my instructors.

²² The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare them;^(A)
    the cords of their sins hold them fast.^(B)
23 For lack of discipline they will die,^(C)
    led astray by their own great folly.^(D)

¹³ Whoever scorns instruction will pay for it,^(A)
    but whoever respects^(B) a command is rewarded.^(C)

¹⁴ The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life,^(D)
    turning a person from the snares of death.^(E)