¹⁶ A person who keeps a command preserves his life.
One who despises his ways will die.

²⁰ Listen to advice and accept discipline,
so that you will be wise in the future.

²⁵ Strike a scoffer, and an undisciplined^[a] person may learn caution.
Warn a person with understanding, and he will gain knowledge.

²⁷ If you stop listening to discipline, my son,
you will stray from the sayings that give knowledge.