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New International Version NIV
12 Apply your heart to instruction and your ear to words of knowledge.
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Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to words of knowledge.
13 Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die.
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Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you punish them with the rod, they will not die.
14 If you strike him with the rod, you will save his soul from Sheol.
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Punish them with the rod and save them from death.
15 My son, if your heart is wise, my heart too will be glad.
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My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad indeed;
16 My inmost being will exult when your lips speak what is right.
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my inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.
17 Let not your heart envy sinners, but continue in the fear of the LORD all the day.
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Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always be zealous for the fear of the LORD.
18 Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
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There is surely a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off.
19 Hear, my son, and be wise, and direct your heart in the way.
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Listen, my son, and be wise, and set your heart on the right path:
20 Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat,
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Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat,
21 for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags
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for drunkards and gluttons become poor, and drowsiness clothes them in rags.
22 Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
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Listen to your father, who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
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