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

²⁵ A foolish son brings grief to his father, And bitterness to her who bore him.

¹ The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; But a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

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

¹⁷ Correct your son, and he will give you peace; Yes, he will bring delight to your soul.

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

²¹ He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy.

²⁴ One who spares the rod hates his son, But one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

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

¹¹ All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.

²¹ He who pampers his servant from youth Will have him become a son in the end.

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.

⁵ He who gathers in summer is a wise son, But he who sleeps during the harvest is a son who causes shame.

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