16 The wage of the righteous leads to life, the gain of the wicked to sin.
17 Whoever heeds instruction is on the path to life, but he who rejects reproof leads others astray.
This sums up several things Proverbs has already mentioned about the cause and effect of our life. The salary received by submission to God is a long life. Sin only brings more sin (the opposite is true too). How do we gain this "righteous life"? It's not by being faultless. It is submitting to the teaching of the wise. If you don't, you not only hurt yourself, you hurt those who are near you.
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