Proverbs 29:17-19

New International Reader's Version

¹⁷ If you correct your children, they will give you peace.
    They will bring you the delights you desire.

¹⁸ Where there is no message from God, people don’t control themselves.
    But blessed is the one who obeys wisdom’s instruction.

¹⁹ Servants can’t be corrected only by words.
    Even if they understand, they won’t obey.