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.
20Pay attention when people give you good advice and learn from them, in order that you will become wise for the rest of your life.
21People plan to do many kinds of things, but what will happen is what Yahweh has decided will happen.
22People want others to be loyal to them; it is better to be poor than to tell a lie to a judge in court in order to get money.
23Those who have an awesome respect for Yahweh will live a long life; they rest peacefully and are not harmed during the night.
24Some people are extremely lazy; they put their hand in a dish to take some food but do not even lift the food up to their mouths.
25If you punish someone who makes fun of those who are wise, those who ◄are naive/need to be instructed► will learn to do what is smart; if you rebuke those who are wise, they will listen to what you say and become wiser.
26Anyone who mistreats/abuses his father or forces his mother to leave the home is a child who is acting shamefully and disgracefully.
27My son, if you stop learning things, you will soon forget what you already know.
28Worthless witnesses in court make fun of judges who try to make fair decisions, and wicked people enjoy doing evil like they enjoy eating good food MET.
29God is ready to punish those who make fun of him/religion; those who do foolish things deserve to be flogged/whipped.
Proverbs 19
Proverbs 19:18-29