Proverbs 29:21
If a servant is gently cared for from his early years, he will become a cause of sorrow in the end.
Bible in Basic English
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
20Have you seen a man who is quick with his tongue? There is more hope for a foolish man than for him.
22An angry man is the cause of fighting, and a man given to wrath does much wrong.
Cross References
Proverbs 29:15The rod and sharp words give wisdom: but a child who is not guided is a cause of shame to his mother.
Luke 7:2And a certain captain had a servant who was very dear to him; this servant was ill and near to death.
1 Timothy 5:6But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she is living.
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 →