17When we give things to poor people, it is as though we are lending to Yahweh, and he will ◄pay us back/reward us for what we did►.
18Discipline your children while they are young, while you still hope that they will learn to behave as they should; if you do not discipline them, you are helping them to destroy themselves.
19Those who ◄do not control their temper/quickly become very angry► will have to endure what happens as a result; but if we rescue them from those troubles once, we will have to continue rescuing them.