Proverbs 9:6-8

Christian Standard Bible

⁶ Leave inexperience behind, and you will live;
pursue the way of understanding.
⁷ The one who corrects a mocker
will bring abuse on himself;
the one who rebukes the wicked will get hurt.^[a]
8 Don’t rebuke a mocker, or he will hate you;^(A)
rebuke the wise, and he will love you.^(B)