Proverbs 22:15
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, and the rod of correction shall drive it away.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Stultitia colligata est in corde pueri, et virga disciplinæ fugabit eam.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἄνοια ἐξῆπται καρδίας νέου, ῥάβδος δὲ καὶ παιδία μακρὰν ἀπ᾽ αὐτοῦ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אִ֭וֶּלֶת קְשׁוּרָ֣ה בְלֶב נָ֑עַר שֵׁ֥בֶט מ֝וּסָ֗ר יַרְחִיקֶ֥נָּה מִמֶּֽנּוּ
Haydock's commentary
Folly. Ignorance and innate corruption are corrected by a good education.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Book VI, Chapter VI
9. I longed for honours, gains, wedlock; and Thou mockedst me. In these desires I underwent most bitter hardships, Thou being the more gracious the less Thou didst suffer anything which was not Thou to grow sweet to me. Behold my heart, O Lord, who wouldest that I should recall all this, and confess unto Thee. Now let my soul cleave to Thee, which Thou hast freed from that fast-holding bird-lime of death. How wretched was it! And Thou didst irritate the feeling of its wound, that, forsaking all else, it might be converted unto Thee, who art above all, and without whom all things would be naught, be converted and be healed. …