¹⁰ There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way: Whoever hates reproof shall die.

¹ Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, But he who hates reproof is stupid.

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

⁷ The world can't hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

²⁰ For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

¹³ In your filthiness is lewdness: because I have cleansed you and you weren't cleansed, you shall not be cleansed from your filthiness any more, until I have caused my wrath toward you to rest.

¹⁴ I, Yahweh, have spoken it: it shall happen, and I will do it: I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to your ways, and according to your doings, shall they judge you, says the Lord Yahweh.

⁵ Why should you be beaten more, That you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, And the whole heart faint.

⁶ From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it: Wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven't been closed, neither bandaged, neither soothed with oil.

³⁵ "They hit me, and I was not hurt; They beat me, and I don't feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I can find another."

¹ A wise son listens to his father's instruction, But a scoffer doesn't listen to rebuke.

¹⁷ He is in the way of life who heeds correction, But he who forsakes reproof leads others astray.

³⁰ They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.

⁸ The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, there is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah: but I hate him; for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. Jehoshaphat said, "Don't let the king say so."

²⁰ Ahab said to Elijah, Have you found me, my enemy? He answered, I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh.

¹⁷ It happened, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said to him, Is it you, you troubler of Israel?