¹⁵ The rod and reproof give wisdom; But a child left to himself causeth shame to his mother.

²⁵ A foolish son is a grief to his father, And bitterness to her that bare him.

¹ The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; But a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

¹⁵ Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; `But' the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

¹⁷ Correct thy son, and he will give thee rest; Yea, he will give delight unto thy soul.

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

²¹ He that begetteth a fool `doeth it' to his sorrow; And the father of a fool hath no joy.

²⁴ He that spareth his rod hateth his son; But he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

¹⁰ For they indeed for a few days chastened `us' as seemed good to them; but he for `our' profit, that `we' may be partakers of his holiness.

¹¹ All chastening seemeth for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit unto them that have been exercised thereby, `even the fruit' of righteousness.

²¹ He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child Shall have him become a son at the last.

¹³ Withhold not correction from the child; `For' if thou beat him with the rod, he will not die.

¹⁴ Thou shalt beat him with the rod, And shalt deliver his soul from Sheol.

⁵ He that gathereth in summer is a wise son; `But' he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.

⁶ And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he was also a very goodly man; and he was born after Absalom.