PRO 23:14 Parallel Verse View

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ULT You shall strike him with the rod
 ⇔ and you will rescue his life from Sheol.

UST Physically punish your children,
⇔ so that you may prevent them from dying.

BSB Strike him with a rod,
⇔ and you will deliver his soul from Sheol.

OEB It is for you to beat him.
⇔ and so will you save him from Sheol.

WEB Punish him with the rod,
⇔ and save his soul from Sheol.[fn]

23:14 Sheol is the place of the dead.

NET If you strike him with the rod,
 ⇔ you will deliver him from death.

LSV You strike him with a rod,
And you deliver his soul from Sheol.

FBV If you use physical correction you can save them from death.[fn]

23:14 “Death” literally, “Sheol,” the place of the dead, the grave.

T4T and it may save them from going to the place where dead people are.

LEB • and his life[fn] you will save from Sheol.[fn]

?:? Or “soul,” or “inner self”

?:? A term for the place where the dead reside, i.e., the Underworld

BBE Give him blows with the rod, and keep his soul safe from the underworld.

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JPS Thou beatest him with the rod, and wilt deliver his soul from the nether-world.

ASV Thou shalt beat him with the rod,
 ⇔ And shalt deliver his soul from Sheol.

DRA Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and deliver his soul from hell.

YLT Thou with a rod smitest him, And his soul from Sheol thou deliverest.

DBY thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from Sheol.

RV Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from Sheol.

WBS Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

KJB Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

BB If thou smyte hym with the rodde, thou shalt deliuer his soule from hell.
(If thou/you smite him with the rodde, thou/you shalt deliver his soule from hell.)

GNV Thou shalt smite him with the rodde, and shalt deliuer his soule from hell.
(Thou shalt smite him with the rodde, and shalt deliver his soule from hell. )

CB Thou smytest him wt the rodde, but thou delyuerest his soule from hell.
(Thou smytest him with the rodde, but thou/you delyuerest his soule from hell.)

WYC Thou schalt smyte hym with a yerde, and thou schalt delyuere his soule fro helle.
(Thou shalt smite him with a yerde, and thou/you shalt delyuere his soule from helle.)

LUT Du hauest ihn mit der Rute; aber du errettest seine SeeLE von der Hölle.
(You hauest him/it with the Rute; but you errettest his SeeLE from the hell.)

CLV Tu virga percuties eum, et animam ejus de inferno liberabis.
(Tu rod/staff percuties him, and animam his about inferno liberabis. )

BRN For thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from death.

BrLXX Συ μὲν γὰρ πατάξεις αὐτὸν ῥάβδῳ, τὴν δὲ ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ ἐκ θανάτου ῥύσῃ.
(Su men gar pataxeis auton ɽabdōi, taʸn de psuⱪaʸn autou ek thanatou ɽusaʸ. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

בַּ⁠שֵּׁ֣בֶט תַּכֶּ֑⁠נּוּ

in/on/at/with,rod beat,him

See how you translated this phrase in the previous verse.

Note 2 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result

וְ֝⁠נַפְשׁ֗⁠וֹ & תַּצִּֽיל

and,soul,his & save

Here, and introduces the result of obeying the command stated in the previous clause. Use the most natural way in your language to indicate results. You may need to start a new sentence. Alternate translation: “If you do these things, then you will rescue his life” or “This will result in you rescuing his life”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

וְ֝⁠נַפְשׁ֗⁠וֹ מִ⁠שְּׁא֥וֹל תַּצִּֽיל

and,soul,his from,sheol save

Here, the writer speaks of someone preventing his child from dying as if he were rescuing his life from Sheol, which is the place where people’s spirits go when they die. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “and you will keep him alive”

Parallel PRO 23:14