Lord, I know you look for faithfulness. ¹  But even when you punish these people, they feel no remorse. ²  Even when you nearly destroy them, they refuse to be corrected. They have become as hardheaded as a rock. ³  They refuse to change their ways. ⁴ 

The one who heeds instruction ¹  is on the way to ²  life, but the one who rejects ³  rebuke goes astray.

“Will the one who contends ¹  with the Almighty correct him? ²  Let the person who accuses God give him an answer!”

Does the one who disciplines the nations not punish? He is the one who imparts knowledge to human beings!

The scorner does not love ¹  one who corrects him; ²  he will not go to ³  the wise.

And he reveals ¹  this ²  for correction, and says that they must turn ³  from evil.

His God instructs him; he teaches him the principles of agriculture. ¹ 

I thought, ¹  ‘Certainly you will respect ²  me! Now you will accept correction!’ If she had done so, her home ³  would not be destroyed ⁴  by all the punishments I have threatened. ⁵  But they eagerly sinned in everything they did. ⁶ 

And you will say, “How I hated discipline! My heart spurned reproof!

For the commandments ¹  are like ²  a lamp, ³  instruction is like a light, and rebukes of discipline are like ⁴  the road leading to life, ⁵ 

Listen to advice ¹  and receive discipline, that ²  you may become wise ³  by the end of your life. ⁴ 

Folly is bound up ¹  in the heart of a child, ²  but the rod of discipline ³  will drive it far from him.

The Teacher sought to find delightful ¹  words, and to write ²  accurately truthful sayings. ³ 

“For the Lord disciplines the one he loves and chastises every son he accepts.” ¹ 

All those ¹  I love, I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent!

May the godly strike me in love and correct me! May my head not refuse ¹  choice oil! ²  Indeed, my prayer is a witness against their evil deeds. ³ 

And have you forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as sons? “My son, do not scorn ¹  the Lord’s discipline or give up when he corrects ²  you.

You severely discipline people for their sins; ¹  like a moth you slowly devour their strength. ²  Surely all people are a mere vapor. (Selah)

Suddenly he went ¹  after her like an ox that goes to the slaughter, like a stag prancing into a trapper’s snare ² 

Simon answered, ¹  “I suppose the one who had the bigger debt canceled.” ²  Jesus ³  said to him, “You have judged rightly.”