Proverbs 22:15-20

¹⁵Foolishnesse is bounde in the heart of a childe: but the rodde of correction shall driue it away from him.

¹⁶Hee that oppresseth the poore to increase him selfe, and giueth vnto the riche, shall surely come to pouertie.

¹⁷Incline thine eare, and heare the wordes of the wise, and apply thine heart vnto my knowledge.

¹⁸For it shalbe pleasant, if thou keepe them in thy bellie, and if they be directed together in thy lippes.

¹⁹That thy confidence may be in the Lord, I haue shewed thee this day: thou therefore take heede.

²⁰Haue not I written vnto thee three times in counsels and knowledge,