Proverbs 19:18
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19:18Discipline your child, for58 there is hope,
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- 58 The translation understands כִּי (ki) as causal. Some prefer to take כִּי as temporal and translate, “while there is hope” (so , , , , ), 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.
- 59 The expression “do not lift up your soul/life” to his death may mean (1) “do not set your heart” on his death (cf. , , , ), or it may mean (2) “do not be a willing partner” (cf. ). The parent is to discipline a child, but he is not to take it to the extreme and destroy or kill the child.
- 60 The Hiphil infinitive construct הֲמִיתוֹ (hamito) 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).
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
Discipline your son, for there is hope;
do not set your heart on putting him to death.
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
Discipline your children, for in that there is hope;
do not be a willing party to their death.
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
Discipline your son while there is hope;
don’t set your heart on being the cause of his death.
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NLTNew Living Translation
Discipline your children while there is hope.
Otherwise you will ruin their lives.
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
Discipline your child, for there is hope,
but on his destruction do not set your desire.
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KJV 1900King James Version
Chasten thy son while there is hope,
And let not thy soul spare for his crying.
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