⁷ Whoever corrects a mocker invites insults; whoever rebukes the wicked incurs abuse.

⁷ He that instructeth a scorner getteth to himself shame; and he that reproveth a wicked [man] [getteth] to himself a blot.

⁷ "He who corrects a scoffer gets shame for himself, And he who rebukes a wicked man only harms himself.