¹⁰ Chastisement `is' grievous to him who is forsaking the path, Whoso is hating reproof dieth.

¹ Whoso is loving instruction, is loving knowledge, And whoso is hating reproof `is' brutish.

¹² And hast said, `How have I hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised,

⁷ the world is not able to hate you, but me it doth hate, because I testify concerning it that its works are evil.

²⁰ for every one who is doing wicked things hateth the light, and doth not come unto the light, that his works may not be detected;

¹³ In thine uncleanness `is' wickedness, Because I have cleansed thee, And thou hast not been cleansed, From thine uncleanness thou art not cleansed again, Till I have caused My fury to rest on thee.

¹⁴ I, Jehovah, hath spoken, It hath come, and I have done `it', I do not free, nor do I spare, nor do I repent, According to thy ways, and according to thine acts, they have judged thee, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.'

⁵ Wherefore are ye stricken any more? Ye do add apostacy! Every head is become diseased, and every heart `is' sick.

⁶ From the sole of the foot -- unto the head, There is no soundness in it, Wound, and bruise, and fresh smiting! They have not been closed nor bound, Nor have they softened with ointment.

³⁵ `They smote me, I have not been sick, They beat me, I have not known. When I awake -- I seek it yet again!'

¹ A wise son -- the instruction of a father, And a scorner -- he hath not heard rebuke.

¹⁷ A traveller to life `is' he who is keeping instruction, And whoso is forsaking rebuke is erring.

³⁰ They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof,

⁸ And the king of Israel saith unto Jehoshaphat, `Yet -- one man to seek Jehovah by him, and I have hated him, for he doth not prophesy concerning me good, but evil -- Micaiah son of Imlah;' and Jehoshaphat saith, `Let not the king say so.'

²⁰ And Ahab saith unto Elijah, `Hast thou found me, O mine enemy?' and he saith, `I have found -- because of thy selling thyself to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah;

¹⁷ and it cometh to pass at Ahab's seeing Elijah, that Ahab saith unto him, `Art thou he -- the troubler of Israel?'