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10 If you do that, you will store more food than you need for yourself. You will have more wine than you can drink.

11 My child, if the Lord warns you that you have done something wrong, accept it. Do not be upset if he warns you. 12 He is doing it because he loves you. When a father loves his son very much, he warns him when he does something wrong.

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10 then your barns will be filled(A) to overflowing,
    and your vats will brim over with new wine.(B)

11 My son,(C) do not despise the Lord’s discipline,(D)
    and do not resent his rebuke,
12 because the Lord disciplines those he loves,(E)
    as a father the son he delights in.[a](F)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 3:12 Hebrew; Septuagint loves, / and he chastens everyone he accepts as his child