I saw among the inexperienced,[a]
I noticed among the youths,
a young man lacking sense.

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  1. 7:7 Or simple, or gullible, or naive

and I have seen among (A)the simple,
    I have perceived among the youths,
    a young man (B)lacking sense,

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Start a youth out on his way;(A)
even when he grows old he will not depart from it.

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(A)Train up a child in the way he should go;
    even when he is old he will not depart from it.

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15 Foolishness is bound to the heart of a youth;
a rod of discipline will separate it from him.(A)

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15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,
    but (A)the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

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13 Don’t withhold discipline from a youth;
if you punish him with a rod, he will not die.(A)
14 Punish him with a rod,
and you will rescue his life from Sheol.(B)

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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.

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15 A rod of correction imparts wisdom,(A)
but a youth left to himself[a]
is a disgrace to his mother.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 29:15 Lit youth sent away

15 (A)The rod and reproof give wisdom,
    but a child left to himself (B)brings shame to his mother.

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