<p class="poetry">Discipline your child, and he will give you rest;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he will bring you<n id="2" /> happiness.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Whoever corrects<n id="1" /> a mocker is asking for<n id="2" /> insult;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">whoever reproves a wicked person receives<n id="4" /> abuse.p>

<p class="poetry">A servant<n id="1" /> cannot be corrected<n id="2" /> by words,p> <p class="poetry">for although<n id="3" /> he understands, there is no answer.<n id="4" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">The words of King Lemuel,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">an oracle<n id="2" /> that his mother taught him:p>

<p class="poetry">Discipline your child, for<n id="1" /> there is hope,p> <p class="poetry">but do not set your heart<n id="2" /> on causing his death.<n id="3" />p>