Proverbs 7:7
World English Bible
7 I saw among the simple ones.
I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,
Proverbs 7:7
English Standard Version
7 and I have seen among (A)the simple,
I have perceived among the youths,
a young man (B)lacking sense,
Proverbs 22:6
World English Bible
6 Train up a child in the way he should go,
and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:6
English Standard Version
6 (A)Train up a child in the way he should go;
even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:15
World English Bible
15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child:
the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
Proverbs 22:15
English Standard Version
15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,
but (A)the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
Proverbs 23:13-14
World English Bible
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]
Footnotes
- 23:14 Sheol is the place of the dead.
Proverbs 23:13-14
English Standard Version
13 Do not withhold (A)discipline from a child;
(B)if you strike him with a rod, he will not die.
14 If you strike him with the rod,
you will (C)save his soul from Sheol.
Proverbs 29:15
World English Bible
15 The rod of correction gives wisdom,
but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.
Proverbs 29:15
English Standard Version
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