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My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:
¶ The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise.
For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
¶ Blessed [is] the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;
¶ A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man [is] vanity. Selah.
¶ Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof [is] brutish.
¶ Behold, happy [is] the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
[As] an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, [so is] a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.
Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
Give [instruction] to a wise [man], and he will be yet wiser: teach a just [man], and he will increase in learning.
¶ Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
And [that] thou shouldest visit him every morning, [and] try him every moment?
So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
I would order [my] cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
For the commandment [is] a lamp; and the law [is] light; and reproofs of instruction [are] the way of life:
¶ He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.
So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that [are] round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken [it].
And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.
Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.
And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day [is] a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and [there is] not strength to bring forth.
Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth [are] no reproofs.
To execute vengeance upon the heathen, [and] punishments upon the people;
But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
¶ He [is in] the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.
¶ Poverty and shame [shall be to] him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.
¶ Correction [is] grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: [and] he that hateth reproof shall die.
¶ Open rebuke [is] better than secret love.
¶ He, that being often reproved hardeneth [his] neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
¶ The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left [to himself] bringeth his mother to shame.
And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day [is] a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and [there is] not strength to bring forth.
¶ I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.
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