⁶ Train children ·to live the right way [^Lin their/or his path; ^Creferring either to children or to God],
and when they are old, they will not ·stray [depart] from it.

¹⁵ ·Every child is full of foolishness [^LStupidity/Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child],
but ·punishment can get rid of it [^Lthe rod of discipline drives it far from them].

¹³ Don’t ·fail to punish [^Lwithhold instruction/discipline from] children.
    If you ·spank them [^Lstrike them with a rod], they won’t die.
¹⁴ If you ·spank them [^Lstrike them with a rod],
    you will save ·them from death [^Ltheir lives from Sheol/the grave].

¹⁵ Correction and ·punishment [^Lthe rod] make children wise,
but those ·left alone [unsupervised] will disgrace their mother.