Deep regret: 'At the end of your life you will groan, when your flesh and body are spent. You will say, "How I hated discipline! How my heart spurned correction!"' The vision extends to the end of the young man's life. At that point, 'your flesh and body are spent' (kol besarka u'meteycha) indicates that the indulgence has taken a physical toll. 'How I hated discipline!' (ki sameti musar) and 'my heart spurned correction' (v'tabati tokechah li'bi) reveal the root: the person who yielded to sexual temptation was one who rejected wisdom's correction. The regret is profound and lifelong. The father is preparing his son to imagine the future regret that will follow if he chooses the path of sexual sin.

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