Proverbs 23:14
Modern Translations
New International Version
Punish them with the rod and save them from death.

New Living Translation
Physical discipline may well save them from death.

English Standard Version
If you strike him with the rod, you will save his soul from Sheol.

Berean Study Bible
Strike him with a rod, and you will deliver his soul from Sheol.

New American Standard Bible
You shall strike him with the rod And rescue his soul from Sheol.

NASB 1995
You shall strike him with the rod And rescue his soul from Sheol.

NASB 1977
You shall beat him with the rod, And deliver his soul from Sheol.

Amplified Bible
You shall swat him with the reed-like rod And rescue his life from Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead).

Christian Standard Bible
Punish him with a rod, and you will rescue his life from Sheol.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Strike him with a rod, and you will rescue his life from Sheol.

Contemporary English Version
and it may even save their lives.

Good News Translation
As a matter of fact, it may save their lives.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Spank him yourself, and you will save his soul from hell.

International Standard Version
Punish him with a rod, and you will rescue his soul from Sheol.

NET Bible
If you strike him with the rod, you will deliver him from death.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

New King James Version
You shall beat him with a rod, And deliver his soul from hell.

King James 2000 Bible
You shall beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from sheol.

New Heart English Bible
Punish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol.

World English Bible
Punish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol.

American King James Version
You shall beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from hell.

American Standard Version
Thou shalt beat him with the rod, And shalt deliver his soul from Sheol.

A Faithful Version
You shall beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from the grave.

Darby Bible Translation
thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from Sheol.

English Revised Version
Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from Sheol.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Thou shalt smite him with the rodde, and shalt deliuer his soule from hell.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
If thou smyte hym with the rodde, thou shalt deliuer his soule from hell.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Thou smytest him wt the rodde, but thou delyuerest his soule from hell.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
You strike him with a rod, "" And you deliver his soul from Sheol.

Young's Literal Translation
Thou with a rod smitest him, And his soul from Sheol thou deliverest.

Smith's Literal Translation
Thou shalt strike him with the rod, and thou shalt deliver his soul from hades.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and deliver his soul from hell.

Catholic Public Domain Version
You will strike him with the rod, and so shall you deliver his soul from Hell.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
For you strike him with a rod and you deliver his soul from Sheol.

Lamsa Bible
For when you beat him with the rod, you will deliver his soul from Sheol.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Thou beatest him with the rod, And wilt deliver his soul from the nether-world.

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
















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