¹⁰ There is grievous correction for him that forsaketh the way; `And' he that hateth reproof shall die.

¹ Whoso loveth correction loveth knowledge; But he that hateth reproof is brutish.

¹² And say, How have I hated instruction, And my heart despised reproof;

⁷ The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that its works are evil.

²⁰ For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, lest his works should be reproved.

¹³ In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have cleansed thee and thou wast not cleansed, thou shalt not be cleansed from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my wrath toward thee to rest.

¹⁴ I, Jehovah, have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it: I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord Jehovah.

⁵ Why will ye be still stricken, that ye revolt more and more? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

⁶ From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; `but' wounds, and bruises, and fresh stripes: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with oil.

³⁵ They have stricken me, `shalt thou say', and I was not hurt; They have beaten me, and I felt it not: When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

¹ A wise son `heareth' his father's instruction; But a scoffer heareth not rebuke.

¹⁷ He is in the way of life that heedeth correction; But he that forsaketh reproof erreth.

³⁰ They would none of my counsel; They despised all my reproof.

⁸ And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, there is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Jehovah, Micaiah the son of Imlah: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.

²⁰ And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee, because thou hast sold thyself to do that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah.

¹⁷ And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Is it thou, thou troubler of Israel?