Proverbs

²⁵Strike a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; reprove a man of understanding, and he will increase in knowledge. ²⁶He who does violence to his father and chases away his mother is a son who causes shame and brings reproach. ²⁷Cease, my son, to hear instruction only to ignore it and stray from the words of knowledge. ²⁸A worthless witness scoffs at justice, and the mouth of the wicked swallows iniquity. ²⁹Judgments are prepared for scoffers, and stripes for the backs of [self-confident] fools. [Isa. 32:6.]