12 Apply your heart to instruction
    and your ear to words of knowledge.
13 Do not withhold (A)discipline from a child;
    (B)if you strike him with a rod, he will not die.
14 If you strike him with the rod,
    you will (C)save his soul from Sheol.
15 (D)My son, if your heart is wise,
    my heart too will be glad.
16 My (E)inmost being[a] will exult
    when your lips speak (F)what is right.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 23:16 Hebrew My kidneys

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