¹² Blessed is the one you discipline,^(A) Lord,
    the one you teach^(B) from your law;

¹¹ My son,^(A) do not despise the Lord’s discipline,^(B)
    and do not resent his rebuke,
¹² because the Lord disciplines those he loves,^(C)
    as a father the son he delights in.^[a](D)

“My son, do not make light of the Lord’s discipline,
    and do not lose heart^(A) when he rebukes you,
⁶ because the Lord disciplines the one he loves,^(B)
    and he chastens everyone he accepts as his son.”^[a](C)

¹⁷ “Blessed is the one whom God corrects;^(A)
    so do not despise the discipline^(B) of the Almighty.^[a](C)

¹⁶ he may speak^(A) in their ears
    and terrify them^(B) with warnings,^(C)
17 to turn them from wrongdoing
    and keep them from pride,^(D)
18 to preserve them from the pit,^(E)
    their lives from perishing by the sword.^[a](F)

¹⁹ “Or someone may be chastened^(G) on a bed of pain^(H)
    with constant distress in their bones,^(I)
20 so that their body finds food^(J) repulsive
    and their soul loathes the choicest meal.^(K)
21 Their flesh wastes away to nothing,
    and their bones,^(L) once hidden, now stick out.^(M)
22 They draw near to the pit,^(N)
    and their life to the messengers of death.^[b](O)
23 Yet if there is an angel at their side,
    a messenger,^(P) one out of a thousand,
    sent to tell them how to be upright,^(Q)
24 and he is gracious to that person and says to God,
    ‘Spare them from going down to the pit;^(R)
    I have found a ransom for them^(S)—
²⁵ let their flesh be renewed^(T) like a child’s;
    let them be restored as in the days of their youth’^(U)—