⁷ And there among the usual crowd of the gullible people
    I spotted a naive young man.

⁶ Teach a child how to follow the right way;
    even when he is old, he will stay on course.

¹⁵ Foolishness consumes the heart of a child,
    but corporal punishment, properly administered, drives it far away.

¹³ Do not withhold discipline from children,
    since corporal punishment will not kill them.
¹⁴ In fact, it may be that kind of punishment
    that will save them from an early grave.