Proverbs 22:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

Train up. Hedge in: i.e. straiten him in, as cattle are guided.

in the way he should go. concerning his way. Hebrew at the mouth of his way: "mouth" being put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6, for the opening or beginning of his way.. H. Spurgeon applied it to "the way you wish you had gone yourself"!

Proverbs 22:6

6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.