Proverbs 22:6
It is a proverb: A young man according to his way, even when he is old he will not depart from it.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Proverbium est : adolescens juxta viam suam ; etiam cum senuerit, non recedet ab ea.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- The Septuagint has no verse matching this one here: it lacks the verse, or carries it elsewhere in its own order.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- חֲנֹ֣ךְ לַ֭נַּעַר עַל פִּ֣י דַרְכּ֑וֹ גַּ֥ם כִּֽי יַ֝זְקִ֗ין לֹֽא יָס֥וּר מִמֶּֽנָּה
Haydock's commentary
It is a proverb, is added by St. Jerome, to make the sentence more striking.
It. He is like a tender plant, (Calmet) or wax, or a new vessel.
Quo semel est imbuta recens servabit odorem
Testa diu. (Horace, ep. i. ad Lol.)
"Shall wool regain its whiteness after it has been dyed purple?" (St. Jerome, ad Lætam.)
Hebrew, "initiate a young," &c. Proportion your lessons to his capacity, and make him relish them.
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.