Proverbs 17:10-15

¹⁰A reproof availeth more with a wise man, than a hundred stripes with a fool.

¹¹An evil man always seeketh quarrels: but a cruel angel shall be sent against him.

¹²It is better to meet a bear robbed of her whelps, than a fool trusting in his own folly.

¹³He that rendereth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

¹⁴The beginning of quarrels is as when one letteth out water: before he suffereth reproach he forsaketh judgment.

¹⁵He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, both are abominable before God.