⁷ I saw among the simple ones.
    I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

⁶ Train up a child in the way he should go,
    and when he is old he will not depart from it.

¹⁵ Folly is bound up in the heart of a child:
    the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

¹³ Don’t withhold correction from a child.
    If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.
¹⁴ Punish him with the rod,
    and save his soul from Sheol.^[a]

¹⁵ The rod of correction gives wisdom,
    but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.