Proverbs 29:21
He that nourisheth his servant delicately from his childhood, afterwards shall find him stubborn.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 to speak? folly is rather to be looked for, than his amendment.
Cross References
Proverbs 29:15The rod and reproof give wisdom: but the child that is left to his own will bringeth his mother to shame.
Luke 7:2And the servant of a certain centurion, who was dear to him, being sick, was ready to die.
1 Timothy 5:6For she that liveth in pleasures, 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 →