Correction {is} grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: {and} he that hateth reproof shall die. {Correction: or, Instruction}

He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked {man getteth} himself a blot.

MEM. O how love I thy law! it {is} my meditation all the day.

And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh {and} intermeddleth with all wisdom. {Through...: or, He that separateth himself seeketh according to his desire, and intermeddleth in every business}

Be ye not as the horse, {or} as the mule, {which} have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.

A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.

I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.

When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;

And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: {but} Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed {are they that} keep my ways.

Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works.

A wise {man} will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

Correction {is} grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: {and} he that hateth reproof shall die. {Correction: or, Instruction}

And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.

Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

He {is in} the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth. {erreth: or, causeth to err}

Poverty and shame {shall be to} him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.

The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall. {a prating...: Heb. a fool of lips} {fall: Heb. be beaten}

But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:

Understand, ye brutish among the people: and {ye} fools, when will ye be wise?

And on the second day were gathered together the chief of the fathers of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, unto Ezra the scribe, even to understand the words of the law. {to understand...: or, that they might instruct in the words of the law}

For he seeth {that} wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.

And the priest shall see {him}: and, behold, {if} the rising {be} white in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and {there be} quick raw flesh in the rising; {quick...: Heb. the quickening of living flesh}

And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand {pieces} of silver: behold, he {is} to thee a covering of the eyes, unto all that {are} with thee, and with all {other}: thus she was reproved.