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.
17 Let not your heart (G)envy sinners,
    but continue in (H)the fear of the Lord all the day.
18 Surely (I)there is a future,
    and your (J)hope will not be cut off.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 23:16 Hebrew My kidneys

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