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10 Then your barns will be filled with plenty,
your vats will overflow with new wine.

Discipline as the Father’s Love

11 My son, never despise Adonai’s discipline
or dread His correction.
12 For Adonai loves those He reproves,
even as a father, the son in whom he delights.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 3:12 cf. Heb. 12:5-7.

10 then your barns will be filled(A) to overflowing,
    and your vats will brim over with new wine.(B)

11 My son,(C) do not despise the Lord’s discipline,(D)
    and do not resent his rebuke,
12 because the Lord disciplines those he loves,(E)
    as a father the son he delights in.[a](F)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 3:12 Hebrew; Septuagint loves, / and he chastens everyone he accepts as his child