Proverbs 29:21
He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child, shall in the end have him as a son.
Darby Translation
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
20Hast thou seen a man hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
22An angry man exciteth contention; and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.
Cross References
Proverbs 29:15The rod and reproof give wisdom; but a child left [to himself] bringeth his mother to shame.
Luke 7:2And a certain centurion's bondman who was dear to him was ill and about to die;
1 Timothy 5:6But she that lives in habits of self-indulgence 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 →