²⁴ Whoso is sparing his rod is hating his son, And whoso is loving him hath hastened him chastisement.

¹⁵ A rod and reproof give wisdom, And a youth let away is shaming his mother.

¹⁸ Chastise thy son, for there is hope, And to put him to death lift not up thy soul.

¹⁵ Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him.

¹³ Withhold not from a youth chastisement, When thou smitest him with a rod he dieth not.

¹⁴ Thou with a rod smitest him, And his soul from Sheol thou deliverest.

¹⁷ Chastise thy son, and he giveth thee comfort, Yea, he giveth delights to thy soul.

¹² For whom Jehovah loveth He reproveth, Even as a father the son He is pleased with.

⁶ for whom the Lord doth love He doth chasten, and He scourgeth every son whom He receiveth;'

⁷ if chastening ye endure, as to sons God beareth Himself to you, for who is a son whom a father doth not chasten?

⁸ and if ye are apart from chastening, of which all have become partakers, then bastards are ye, and not sons.

³⁶ And whoso is missing me, is wronging his soul, All hating me have loved death!

²⁶ `If any one doth come unto me, and doth not hate his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yet even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple;