Proverbs 7:22 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Or as a fool to the correction of the stocks. — This sense is only gained by a transposition of the original. It has been attempted to translate it literally “and as if in fetters to where one corrects fools,” i.e., to prison.

Proverbs 7:22

22 He goeth after her straightway,c as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;