New Revised Standard Version
Folly is bound up in the heart of a boy, but the rod of discipline drives it far away.

Contemporary English Version
All children are foolish, but firm correction will make them change.

New American Bible
Folly is bound to the heart of a youth, but the rod of discipline will drive it out.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, and the rod of correction shall drive it away.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, and the rod of correction shall drive it away.

foolishness

Job 14:4 Who can make him clean that is conceived of unclean seed? is it not thou who only art?

Psalm 51:5 For behold I was conceived in iniquities; and in sins did my mother conceive me.

John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh: and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Ephesians 2:3 In which also we all conversed in time past, in the desires of our flesh, fulfilling the will of the flesh and of our thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:

but

Proverbs 13:24 He that spareth the rod, hateth his son: but he that loveth him, correcteth him betimes.

Proverbs 19:18 Chastise thy son, despair not: but to the killing of him set not thy soul.

Proverbs 23:13,14 Withhold not correction from a child: for if thou strike him with the rod, he shall not die. . . .

Proverbs 29:15,17 The rod and reproof give wisdom: but the child that is left to his own will, bringeth his mother to shame. . . .

Hebrews 12:10,11 And they indeed for a few days, according to their own pleasure, instructed us: but he, for our profit, that we might receive his sanctification. . . .