Proverbs 29:21
Whoever nurtures his servant delicately from childhood, afterwards will find him defiant.
Catholic Public Domain 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
20Have you seen a man rushing to speak? Foolishness has more hope than his correction.
22A short-tempered man provokes quarrels. And whoever is easily angered is more likely to sin.
Cross References
Proverbs 29:15The rod and its correction distribute wisdom. But the child who is left to his own will, brings shame to his mother.
Luke 7:2Now the servant of a certain centurion was dying, due to an illness. And he was very dear to him.
1 Timothy 5:6For she who is living in pleasures is dead, while 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 →