¹² As an ear-ring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, So is a wise reprover to an obedient ear.

⁵ Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; Let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; Don't let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.

³¹ that this shall be no grief to you, nor offense of heart to my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. When Yahweh shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember your handmaid.

³² David said to Abigail, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me:

³³ and blessed be your discretion, and blessed be you, that have kept me this day from blood guiltiness, and from avenging myself with my own hand.

³⁴ For in very deed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, who has withheld me from hurting you, except you had hurried and come to meet me, surely there wouldn't have been left to Nabal by the morning light so much as one man-child.

¹¹ Then came there to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money,{Literally, kesitah, a unit of money, probably silver} and everyone a ring of gold.

⁸ My son, listen to your father's instruction, And don't forsake your mother's teaching:

⁹ For they will be a garland to grace your head, And chains around your neck.

⁸ Don't reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise man, and he will love you.

⁵ A fool despises his father's correction, But he who heeds reproof shows prudence.

³¹ The ear that listens to reproof lives, And will be at home among the wise.

³² He who refuses correction despises his own soul, But he who listens to reproof gets understanding.

¹² The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Yahweh has made even both of them.

⁵ Better is open rebuke Than hidden love.

⁶ Faithful are the wounds of a friend; Although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.