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# Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child
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"The heart of a child is full of foolish things"
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# the rod of discipline
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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]])
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# drives it far away
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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]])
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