12. Apply your heart to instruction, and your ear to sayings of knowledge.
13. Do not withhold discipline from a child, if you will beat him with the rod, he will not die.
14. As for you, with the rod you shall beat him, and his life you will save from Sheol.
15. My child, if your heart is wise, my heart will be glad—even me!
16. And my insides will rejoice when your lips speak what is upright.
17. May your heart not envy the sinners, but live in fear of Yahweh all day.
18. Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
19. You, my child, hear and be wise, and direct your heart on the road.
20. Do not be among drinkers of wine, among gluttonous eaters of their meat.
21. For the drunkard and gluttonous, they will become poor, and with rags, drowsiness will clothe them.