Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes 4:9-12.

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    Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
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    man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an
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