⁶ Teach a youth about the way he should go;^(A)
even when he is old he will not depart from it.

¹⁵ Foolishness is tangled up in the heart of a youth;
the rod of discipline will drive it away from him.^(A)

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

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