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# Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child
"The heart of a child is full of foolish things"
# the rod of discipline
The writer speaks of a parent using any form of discipline as if that parent were hitting the child with a wooden rod. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])
# drives it far away
The writer speaks as if foolishness were a person that another person could use a physical rod to drive away. Alternate translation: "will make a child wise" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])