Proverbs 9:10
“Discipline is an index to doctrine. [The heretics] say that God is not to be feared. So everything is free to them and unrestrained. But where is God not feared, except where he is not present? Where God is not present, there is no truth either; and where there is no truth, discipline like theirs is natural. But where…”
Source: Septuagint
10The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, And the counsel of saints is understanding: a For to know the law is the character of a sound mind.
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8Rebuke not evil men, lest they should hate thee: Rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
9Give an opportunity to a wise man, and he will be wiser: Instruct a just man, and he will receive more instruction.
— Proverbs 9:10 —
11For in this way thou shalt live long, And years of thy life shall be added to thee.
12Son, if thou be wise for thyself, thou shalt also be wise for thy neighbors; And if thou shouldest prove wicked, thou alone wilt bear the evil. a He that stays himself upon falsehoods, attempts to rule the winds, And the same will pursue birds in their flight: b For he has forsaken the ways of his own vineyard, And he has caused the axles of his own husbandry to go astray; c And he goes through a dry desert, And a land appointed to drought, And he gathers barrenness with his hands.