Start(A) children off on the way they should go,(B)
    and even when they are old they will not turn from it.(C)

The rich rule over the poor,
    and the borrower is slave to the lender.

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Train children to live the right way,
    and when they are old, they will not stray from it.

The rich rule over the poor,
    and borrowers are servants to lenders.

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(A)Teach children how they should live, and they will remember it all their life.

Poor people are slaves of the rich. Borrow money and you are the lender's slave.

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Train up a child [a]in the way he should go,
And even when he is old he will not depart from it.
The rich ruleth over the poor;
And the borrower is servant to the lender.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 22:6 Hebrew according to his way.

Train children in the right way,
    and when old, they will not stray.(A)
The rich rule over the poor,
    and the borrower is the slave of the lender.(B)

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