Proverbs 19:25-29 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

25. When the pestilent are scourged, the foolish will become wiser. But if you chastise the wise, he will understand discipline.

26. Whoever afflicts his father and flees from his mother is disreputable and unhappy.

27. Son, do not cease listening to doctrine, and do not be ignorant of the sermons of knowledge.

28. An unjust witness ridicules judgment. And the mouth of the impious devours iniquity.

29. Judgments are prepared for those who ridicule. And striking hammers are prepared for the bodies of the foolish.

Proverbs 19