KJV:
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
NASB:
Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old he will not depart from it.
KJV:
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
NASB:
Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; The rod of discipline will remove it far from him.
KJV:
Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
NASB:
Do not hold back discipline from the child, Although you strike him with the rod, he will not die.
KJV:
The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
NASB:
The rod and reproof give wisdom, But a child who gets his own way brings shame to his mother.
KJV:
Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!
NASB:
Woe to you, O land, whose king is a lad and whose princes feast in the morning.
KJV:
And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
NASB:
And I will make mere lads their princes, And capricious children will rule over them,
KJV:
And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
NASB:
And the people will be oppressed, Each one by another, and each one by his neighbor; The youth will storm against the elder And the inferior against the honorable.
KJV:
For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.
NASB:
"For before the boy will know enough to refuse evil and choose good, the land whose two kings you dread will be forsaken.
KJV:
For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.
NASB:
for before the boy knows how to cry out 'My father ' or 'My mother,' the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria."