'Reproof' in the Bible
How powerful have been upright sayings, And what doth reproof from you reprove?
For reproof -- do you reckon words? And for wind -- sayings of the desperate.
And I am plagued all the day, And my reproof is every morning.
Turn back at my reproof, lo, I pour forth to you my spirit, I make known my words with you.
And ye slight all my counsel, And my reproof ye have not desired.
They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof,
Chastisement of Jehovah, my son, despise not, And be not vexed with His reproof,
And hast said, 'How have I hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised,
Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee, Give reproof to the wise, and he loveth thee.
Whoso is loving instruction, is loving knowledge, And whoso is hating reproof is brutish.
Whoso is refusing instruction -- poverty and shame, And whoso is observing reproof is honoured.
A fool despiseth the instruction of his father, And whoso is regarding reproof is prudent.
Chastisement is grievous to him who is forsaking the path, Whoso is hating reproof dieth.
An ear that is hearing the reproof of life Doth lodge among the wise.
Whoso is refusing instruction is despising his soul, And whoso is hearing reproof Is getting understanding.
A scorner smite, and the simple acts prudently, And give reproof to the intelligent, He understandeth knowledge.
A rod and reproof give wisdom, And a youth let away is shaming his mother.
Ephraim is for a desolation in a day of reproof, Among the tribes of Israel I have made known a sure thing.
Art not Thou of old, O Jehovah, my God, my Holy One? We do not die, O Jehovah, For judgment Thou hast appointed it, And, O Rock, for reproof Thou hast founded it.
On my charge I stand, and I station myself on a bulwark, and I watch to see what He doth speak against me, and what I do reply to my reproof.