Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged. Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
'Irritate not' х erethizete (G2042)]. So B. But 'Aleph (') A C Delta G [parorgizete], provoke to wrath; perhaps a conformation to Ephesians 6:4. By perpetual fault-finding "children" are [athumosin] 'disheartened,' seeing the parents so hard to please. A broken-down spirit is fatal to youth.