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Selected Verse: Proverbs 22:15 - Strong Concordance

Verse	Translation	Text
Pr 22:15	Strong Concordance	Foolishness [0200] is bound [07194] in the heart [03820] of a child [05288]; but the rod [07626] of correction [04148] shall drive it far [07368] from him.
	King James	Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
is bound--or firmly fixed. Chastisement deters from crime and so leads to reformation of principle.

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

is bound--or firmly fixed. Chastisement deters from crime and so leads to reformation of principle.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]
15 Folly is bound to the heart of a child; The rod of correction driveth it forth. Folly, i.e., pleasure in stupid tricks, silly sport, and foolish behaviour, is the portion of children as such; their heart is as yet childish, and folly is bound up in it. Education first driveth forth this childish, foolish nature (for, as Menander says: Ὁ μὴ δαρεὶς ἄνθρωπος οὐ παιδεύεται), and if effects this when it is unindulgently severe: the שׁבט מוּסר (vid., Pro 23:13) removeth אוּלת from the heart, for it imparts intelligence and makes wise (Pro 29:15). The lxx is right in rendering 16a: ἄνοια ἐξῆπται (from ἐξάπτειν) καρδίας νέου; but the Syr. has "here mangled the lxx, and in haste has read ἀνοίᾳ ἐξίπταται: folly makes the understanding of the child fly away" (Lagarde).

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]

15 Folly is bound to the heart of a child;

The rod of correction driveth it forth.

Folly, i.e., pleasure in stupid tricks, silly sport, and foolish behaviour, is the portion of children as such; their heart is as yet childish, and folly is bound up in it. Education first driveth forth this childish, foolish nature (for, as Menander says:

Ὁ μὴ δαρεὶς ἄνθρωπος οὐ παιδεύεται),

and if effects this when it is unindulgently severe: the שׁבט מוּסר (vid., Pro 23:13) removeth אוּלת from the heart, for it imparts intelligence and makes wise (Pro 29:15). The lxx is right in rendering 16a: ἄνοια ἐξῆπται (from ἐξάπτειν) καρδίας νέου; but the Syr. has "here mangled the lxx, and in haste has read ἀνοίᾳ ἐξίπταται: folly makes the understanding of the child fly away" (Lagarde).

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
Bound - Is fixed and settled there, as being born with him, and rooted in his very nature.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]

Bound - Is fixed and settled there, as being born with him, and rooted in his very nature.

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