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.
⁹ Instruct the wise,
    and they will be even wiser.
Teach the righteous,
    and they will learn even more.

⁸ The wise are glad to be instructed,
    but babbling fools fall flat on their faces.

¹⁵ Fools think their own way is right,
    but the wise listen to others.

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