Proverbs 23:13-14

13, 14. Withhold not correction Solomon did not trust wholly to moral suasion in the education of children, but insisted on the rod as necessary for the salvation of the child. Compare Proverbs 13:24; Proverbs 19:18; Proverbs 22:15; Proverbs 29:15; on Proverbs 23:13; Proverbs 3:27. Not that all children need it, but some assuredly do. “By the neglect of early correction the passions obtain the ascendency, the temper becomes irascible, peevish, querulous; pride is nourished, humility destroyed; and by the habit of indulgence the mind is incapacitated to bear with firmness and equanimity the cares and sorrows, the checks and disappointments, to which flesh is heir.” Holden. Comp. Proverbs 4:13; Proverbs 15:24; Proverbs 7:27, seq. Proverbs 9:18.