Add parallel Print Page Options

18 Correct your children
    before it's too late;
if you don't punish them,
    trouble will come their way.[a]
19 People with bad tempers
    are always in trouble,
and they need help
    over and over again.[b]

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 19.18 if … way: Or “but be careful not to punish them too harshly.”
  2. 19.19 and they … again: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.

18 Discipline your children, for in that there is hope;
    do not be a willing party to their death.(A)

19 A hot-tempered person must pay the penalty;
    rescue them, and you will have to do it again.

Read full chapter