If you reject discipline, you only harm yourself; but if you listen to correction, you grow in understanding.

弃绝管教的，轻看自己的生命；听从责备的，却得智慧。

弃绝管教的，轻看自己的生命；领受责备的，却得智慧的心。

弃绝管教的，轻看自己的生命；领受责备的，却得智慧的心。

不受管教就是轻看自己，听从责备才能得到智慧。

轻忽管教的是藐视自己；听从责备的却得着智慧（“智慧”原文作“心”）。

忽视管教的，厌弃自己的灵魂；听从责备的，获得智慧的心。

棄絕管教的，輕看自己的生命；聽從責備的，卻得智慧。

棄絕管教的，輕看自己的生命；領受責備的，卻得智慧的心。

棄絕管教的，輕看自己的生命；領受責備的，卻得智慧的心。

不受管教就是輕看自己，聽從責備才能得到智慧。

輕忽管教的是藐視自己；聽從責備的卻得著智慧（“智慧”原文作“心”）。

規避管教的是鄙視自己；聽從勸責的擁有己心。

忽視管教的，厭棄自己的靈魂；聽從責備的，獲得智慧的心。

棄勸懲者、乃輕己魂、聽斥責者、必得知識、

棄道者輕生命、聽勸者得聰明。

棄教誨者輕忽己命、聽勸教者必得明哲、

Those who disregard discipline despise themselves, but the one who heeds correction gains understanding.

Those who turn away from correction hate themselves. But anyone who accepts correction gains understanding.

Whoever ignores instruction despises himself, but he who listens to reproof gains intelligence.

Anyone who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever listens to correction acquires good sense.

One who neglects discipline rejects himself, But one who listens to a rebuke acquires understanding.

He who disdains instruction despises his own soul, But he who heeds rebuke gets understanding.

He that refuseth correction despiseth his own soul; But he that hearkeneth to reproof getteth understanding.

Anyone who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever listens to correction acquires good sense.

He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.

The one who refuses correction despises himself, but whoever hears reproof acquires understanding.

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

“ I called you so often, but you wouldn’t come. I reached out to you, but you paid no attention.You ignored my advice and rejected the correction I offered.So I will laugh when you are in trouble! I will mock you when disaster overtakes you—when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when disaster engulfs you like a cyclone, and anguish and distress overwhelm you.“ When they cry for help, I will not answer. Though they anxiously search for me, they will not find me.For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the Lord.They rejected my advice and paid no attention when I corrected them.Therefore, they must eat the bitter fruit of living their own way, choking on their own schemes.For simpletons turn away from me— to death. Fools are destroyed by their own complacency.But all who listen to me will live in peace, untroubled by fear of harm.”

But don’t just listen to God’s word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves.

“ Anyone who listens to my teaching and follows it is wise, like a person who builds a house on solid rock.Though the rain comes in torrents and the floodwaters rise and the winds beat against that house, it won’t collapse because it is built on bedrock.But anyone who hears my teaching and doesn’t obey it is foolish, like a person who builds a house on sand.When the rains and floods come and the winds beat against that house, it will collapse with a mighty crash.”

I correct and discipline everyone I love. So be diligent and turn from your indifference.

Fear of the Lord is the foundation of true knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.

Whoever stubbornly refuses to accept criticism will suddenly be destroyed beyond recovery.

Foolishness brings joy to those with no sense; a sensible person stays on the right path.

A wise person is hungry for knowledge, while the fool feeds on trash.

The parents must say to the elders,‘ This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious and refuses to obey. He is a glutton and a drunkard.’

In the end you will groan in anguish when disease consumes your body.You will say,“ How I hated discipline! If only I had not ignored all the warnings!Oh, why didn’t I listen to my teachers? Why didn’t I pay attention to my instructors?

Intelligent people are always ready to learn. Their ears are open for knowledge.

“ Suppose a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey his father or mother, even though they discipline him.

Your impurity is your lewdness and the corruption of your idolatry. I tried to cleanse you, but you refused. So now you will remain in your filth until my fury against you has been satisfied.“ I, the Lord, have spoken! The time has come, and I won’t hold back. I will not change my mind, and I will have no pity on you. You will be judged on the basis of all your wicked actions, says the Sovereign Lord.”

Listen to my instruction and be wise. Don’t ignore it.Joyful are those who listen to me, watching for me daily at my gates, waiting for me outside my home!For whoever finds me finds life and receives favor from the Lord.But those who miss me injure themselves. All who hate me love death.”

It is senseless to pay to educate a fool, since he has no heart for learning.

For you refuse my discipline and treat my words like trash.

Why do you continue to invite punishment? Must you rebel forever? Your head is injured, and your heart is sick.

Lord, you are searching for honesty. You struck your people, but they paid no attention. You crushed them, but they refused to be corrected. They are determined, with faces set like stone; they have refused to repent.

Look after each other so that none of you fails to receive the grace of God. Watch out that no poisonous root of bitterness grows up to trouble you, corrupting many.