¹² and you will say, “How I hated discipline,
and how my heart despised correction.^(A)
13 I didn’t obey my teachers
or listen closely^[a] to my mentors.

²² A wicked man’s iniquities entrap him;^(A)
he is entangled in the ropes of his own sin.^(B)
23 He will die because there is no discipline,^(C)
and be lost because of his great stupidity.

²³ For a command is a lamp, teaching is a light,^(A)
and corrective discipline is the way to life.^(B)