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22 Good people will have wealth to leave to their grandchildren, but the wealth of sinners will go to the righteous.

23 Unused fields could yield plenty of food for the poor, but unjust people keep them from being farmed.[a]

24 If you don't punish your children, you don't love them. If you do love them, you will correct them.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 13:23 Verse 23 in Hebrew is unclear.

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