⁷ He who ^(A)disciplines a scoffer receives disgrace for himself,
And he who reproves a wicked man receives injury for himself.
^8 (B)Do not reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you,
^(C)Reprove a wise man and he will love you.
⁹ Give knowledge to a wise man and he will be still wiser,
Make a righteous man know it and he will ^(D)increase his learning.

¹⁵ The ^(A)way of an ignorant fool is right in his own eyes,
But a wise man is he who listens to counsel.

13 A ^(A)wise son accepts his father’s discipline,
But a ^(B)scoffer does not listen to rebuke.

¹³ The one who ^(A)despises the word will be ^[a]in debt to it,
But the one who fears the commandment will be ^(B)rewarded.

³¹ He whose ear listens to the life-giving reproof
Will lodge among the wise.

¹⁰ A rebuke goes deeper into one who understands
Than a hundred blows into a fool.