Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge, but he hating chastisement is one of stupidity.
Discipline is an evil thing to one leaving the path of obedience; one hating reproof shall die.
He who separates himself seeks to gain his own desire; he breaks out against all sound wisdom.
A brutish man does not know; a fool does not understand this.
Be not like the horse, like the mule, with no understanding; with bit and bridle his gear to be held in, that they do not come near you.
and in all deception of unrighteousness in the ones perishing, because they did not receive the love of the truth in order for them to be saved.
I love those who love Me, and those who seek Me early find Me.
And now listen to Me, O sons, for blessed are those who keep My ways.
The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people have not understood.
Make me understand the way of Your precepts, and I will meditate on Your wonderful works.
Yea, you hate discipline and toss My words behind you.
But he who sins against Me wrongs his own soul; all who hate Me love death.
Behold, the righteous ones shall be rewarded in the earth; also indeed the wicked one and the sinner.
The good obtain grace from Jehovah, but He will condemn a man of evil devices.
Surely I am more brutish than any man, and the understanding of a man is not to me.
And the priest shall look, and, behold, if a white rising is in the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and a living flesh is in the swelling,
Let the righteous one strike me; it is a mercy; and he rebuking me, it is oil of the head, let not my head refuse it; for yet my prayer also shall be against their evils.
The wise of heart accepts commands, but the lips of the foolish one shall be thrust away.