^{9 Ref} Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:

^{10 Ref} Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;

^{11 Ref} And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

^{12 Ref} And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

^{13 Ref} And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

^{14 Ref} I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.