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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/translate/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. AT: "will make a child wise" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
# to increase his wealth
"to become richer" or "to gain more money"
# gives to rich people
"gives money to rich people"
# will come to poverty
This is an idiom. AT: "will become poor" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])
# translationWords
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/foolish]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/heart]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/children]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/rod]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/discipline]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/oppress]]