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18 Discipline your son while there is hope;
    do not set your heart on his destruction.
19 A man of great wrath will pay the penalty;
    for if you deliver him, you will only have to do it again.[a]
20 Listen to advice and accept instruction,
    that you may gain wisdom for the future.

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  1. Proverbs 19:19 Heb obscure

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