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Proverbs 19:18

NETBible	Discipline your child, for¹ there is hope, but do not set your heart² on causing his death.³
NIV © biblegateway Pro 19:18	Discipline your son, for in that there is hope; do not be a willing party to his death.
NASB © biblegateway Pro 19:18	Discipline your son while there is hope, And do not desire his death.
NLT © biblegateway Pro 19:18	Discipline your children while there is hope. If you don’t, you will ruin their lives.
MSG © biblegateway Pro 19:18	Discipline your children while you still have the chance; indulging them destroys them.
BBE © SABDAweb Pro 19:18	Give your son training while there is hope; let not your heart be purposing his death.
NRSV © bibleoremus Pro 19:18	Discipline your children while there is hope; do not set your heart on their destruction.
NKJV © biblegateway Pro 19:18	Chasten your son while there is hope, And do not set your heart on his destruction.
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KJV	Chasten <03256> (8761) thy son <01121> while there is <03426> hope <08615>_, and let not thy soul <05315> spare <05375> (8799) for his crying <04191> (8687)_. {for...: or, to his destruction: or, to cause him to die}
NASB © biblegateway Pro 19:18	Discipline <03256> your son <01121> while <03588> there <03426> is hope <08615> , And do not desire <05375> <5315> his death <04191> .
LXXM	paideue <3811> V-PAD-2S uion <5207> N-ASM sou <4771> P-GS outwv <3778> ADV gar <1063> PRT estai <1510> V-FMI-3S euelpiv {N-NSF} eiv <1519> PREP de <1161> PRT ubrin <5196> N-ASF mh <3165> ADV epairou {V-PMD-2S} th <3588> T-DSF quch <5590> N-DSF sou <4771> P-GS
NET [draft] ITL	Discipline <03256> your child <01121> , for <03588> there is <03426> hope <08615> , but do not <0408> set <05375> your heart <05315> on <0413> causing his death <04191> .
HEBREW	Kspn <05315> avt <05375> la <0408> wtymh <04191> law <0413> hwqt <08615> sy <03426> yk <03588> Knb <01121> roy (19:18) <03256>

NETBible

Discipline your child, for¹ there is hope, but do not set your heart² on causing his death.³

NET Notes

¹tn The translation understands כִּי (ki) as causal. Some prefer to take כִּי as temporal and translate, “while there is hope” (so KJV, NASB, NCV, NRSV, NLT), meaning that discipline should be administered when the child is young and easily guided. In the causal reading of כִּי, the idea seems to be that children should be disciplined because change is possible due to their youth and the fact that they are not set in their ways.

²tn The expression “do not lift up your soul/life” to his death may mean (1) “do not set your heart” on his death (cf. ASV, NAB, NASB, NRSV), or it may mean (2) “do not be a willing partner” (cf. NIV). The parent is to discipline a child, but he is not to take it to the extreme and destroy or kill the child.

³tn The Hiphil infinitive construct הֲמִיתוֹ (h^amito) means “taking it to heart” in this line. The traditional rendering was “and let not your soul spare for his crying.” This involved a different reading than “causing his death” (J. H. Greenstone, Proverbs, 206-7).