Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die.
Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way - as it was to Ahab (1 Kings 22:8; 1 Kings 21:20; 1 Kings 18:17); and to Jehoiakim (Jeremiah 36:23). But better is "correction," though "grievous," than 'death' eternal, which is the end of him who, through 'hatred' of "reproof," "forsaketh the way."
(And) he that hateth reproof shall die. From regarding "correction" as "grievous" at first, he comes at last to positive and inveterate 'hatred' of it.