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15 Folly is bound to the heart of a youth,
    but the rod of discipline will drive it out.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 22:15 Folly is attached to children as the husk is attached to the grain. “Rod” here, as in v. 8, seems to be the flail. Discipline is the process of winnowing away the folly.

15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a boy,
    but the rod of discipline drives it far away.

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15 Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child;
The (A)rod of discipline will remove it far from him.

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15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,
    but the rod of discipline will drive it far away.(A)

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