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

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.

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.

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.

⁹ Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising `us', and we were reverencing `them'; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live?

¹⁰ for they, indeed, for a few days, according to what seemed good to them, were chastening, but He for profit, to be partakers of His separation;