Proverbs 29:21
He who brings up his servant gently from childhood shall have him become a son at the last.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length.
In Context
20See thou a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
22An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in transgression.
Cross References
Proverbs 29:15The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.
Luke 7:2And a certain centurion's bondman faring badly was going to perish, who was esteemed by him.
1 Timothy 5:6But she who is self-indulgent is dead while she lives.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 29:21
20 Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him. Solomon here shows that there is little hope of bringing a man to wisdom that is hasty either, 1. Through rashness and inconsideration: Seest thou a man that is hasty in his matters, that is of a light desultory wit, that seems to take a thing quickly, but takes it by the halves, gallops over a book or science, but takes no time to digest it, no time to pause or muse upon a business? There is more hope of making a scholar and… Read the whole commentary →