Proverbs 23:14 (BSB)

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

From Proverbs 23. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 23:14

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 23:12-16: Here is, 1. A parent instructing his child. He is here brought in persuading him to give his mind to his book, and especially to the scriptures and his catechism, to attend to the words of knowledge, by which he might come to know his duty, and danger, and interest, and not to think it enough to give them the hearing, but to apply his...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 23:14: Thou shall beat him with the rod,.... Or, correct him with the stripes of the children of men, in a moderate and suitable manner, proportionable to the fault committed; and as he is able to bear it, both as to body and mind; and shalt deliver his soul from hell; be a means of preventing those sins which would bring to hell and destruction; and...
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 23:14: Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell. (g) That is, from destruction.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 23:13-14: Pro 23:13-14 13 Withhold not correction from the child; For thou will beat him with the rod, and he will not die. 14 Thou beatest him with the rod, And with it deliverest his soul from hell. The exhortation, 13a, presupposes that education by word and deed is a duty devolving on the father and the teacher with regard to the child.