12. Apply your mind to instruction and correction and your ears to words of knowledge.
13. Withhold not discipline from the child; for if you strike and punish him with the [reedlike] rod, he will not die.
14. You shall whip him with the rod and deliver his life from Sheol (Hades, the place of the dead).
15. My son, if your heart is wise, my heart will be glad, even mine;
16. Yes, my heart will rejoice when your lips speak right things.
17. Let not your heart envy sinners, but continue in the reverent and worshipful fear of the Lord all the day long.
18. For surely there is a latter end [a future and a reward], and your hope and expectation shall not be cut off.
19. Hear, my son, and be wise, and direct your mind in the way [of the Lord].
20. Do not associate with winebibbers; be not among them nor among gluttonous eaters of meat, [Isa. 5:22; Luke 21:34; Rom. 13:13; Eph. 5:18.]
21. For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty, and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
22. Hearken to your father, who begot you, and despise not your mother when she is old.