¹⁰ Stern discipline awaits anyone who leaves the path;
    the one who hates correction will die.^(A)

¹² Mockers resent correction,^(A)
    so they avoid the wise.

³² Those who disregard discipline despise themselves,^(A)
    but the one who heeds correction gains understanding.^(B)

¹⁸ Discipline your children, for in that there is hope;
    do not be a willing party to their death.^(A)

³⁰ Blows and wounds scrub^(A) away evil,
    and beatings^(B) purge the inmost being.

⁶ Start^(A) children off on the way they should go,^(B)
    and even when they are old they will not turn from it.^(C)

¹⁵ Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,
    but the rod of discipline will drive it far away.^(A)

¹⁵ A rod and a reprimand impart wisdom,
    but a child left undisciplined disgraces its mother.^(A)