Chasten your son, and he shall give you rest, and he shall give honor to your soul.

He that lives wantonly from a child shall be a servant, and in the end shall grieve over himself.

[This translation omits this verse.]

Folly is attached to the heart of a child, but the rod and instruction are [then] far from him.

Refrain not from chastening a child, for if you beat him with the rod, he shall not die.

For you shall beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from death.

For they indeed for a few days were disciplining us, as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, in order to partake of His holiness.

Now no discipline seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, later it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those having been trained by it.

A wise son makes [his] father glad, but a foolish son is a grief to his mother.

A wise son is saved from heat, but a lawless son is blighted of the winds in harvest.

and the heart of a fool is grief to its possessor. A father rejoices not over an uninstructed son, but a wise son gladdens his mother.

A foolish son [is a cause of] anger to his father, and grief to her that bore him.

And his father never at any time checked him, saying, Why have you done [thus]? And he was also very handsome in appearance, and his mother bore him after Absalom.