i. e., “You will not kill your son by scourging him, you may kill him by with holding the scourge.”
Hell - Sheol, the world of the dead.
Related Commentaries of Proverbs 23:13
Proverbs 23:13-14
13 Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
14 Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.