Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsDBT
Train up the child according to the tenor of his way, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
ASV
Train up a child in the way he should go, And even when he is old he will not depart from it.
WEB
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
YLT
Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentProverbs — Gnomic wisdom — sayings, instructions, and the binary of wisdom vs. folly. Fear of the LORD as the integrative theme; the virtuous woman of Prov 31 as the book's closing portrait of wisdom embodied.
- Author
- Solomon principally (1:1; chs 10–22:16 and 25–29 explicitly); Agur (ch 30); Lemuel's mother (ch 31:1–9); editorial compilation by Hezekiah's men (25:1).
- Date
- Solomon's reign c. 970–930 BC; Hezekiah's editorial layer c. 715–687 BC.