¹² and you will say, “How I hated discipline,
and how my heart despised correction.^(A)
13 I didn’t obey my teachers
or listen closely^[a] to my instructors.

²² A wicked man’s iniquities will trap him;^(A)
he will become tangled in the ropes of his own sin.^(B)
23 He will die because there is no discipline,^(C)
and be lost because of his great stupidity.

²³ For a command is a lamp, teaching is a light,^(A)
and corrective discipline is the way to life.^(B)