Proverbs

⁸The morsel which you have eaten you will vomit up, and your complimentary words will be wasted. ⁹Speak not in the ears of a [self-confident] fool, for he will despise the [godly] Wisdom of your words. [Isa. 32:6.] ¹⁰Remove not the ancient landmark and enter not into the fields of the fatherless, [Deut. 19:14; 27:17; Prov. 22:28.] ¹¹For their Redeemer is mighty; He will plead their cause against you. ¹²Apply your mind to instruction and correction and your ears to words of knowledge. ¹³Withhold not discipline from the child; for if you strike and punish him with the [reedlike] rod, he will not die. ¹⁴You shall whip him with the rod and deliver his life from Sheol (Hades, the place of the dead).