¹⁰ Rebuke cometh down on the intelligent More than a hundred stripes on a fool.

⁵ The righteous doth beat me `in' kindness. And doth reprove me, Oil of the head my head disalloweth not, For still my prayer `is' about their vexations.

⁸ Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee, Give reproof to the wise, and he loveth thee.

⁹ Give to the wise, and he is wiser still, Make known to the righteous, And he increaseth learning.

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

⁵ A fool despiseth the instruction of his father, And whoso is regarding reproof is prudent.

²⁵ A scorner smite, and the simple acts prudently, And give reproof to the intelligent, He understandeth knowledge.

²² If thou dost beat the foolish in a mortar, Among washed things -- with a pestle, His folly turneth not aside from off him.

¹⁹ By words a servant is not instructed though he understand, And there is nothing answering.

¹⁹ `As many as I love, I do convict and chasten; be zealous, then, and reform;