Proverbs 29:21
A servant indulged from childhood will in the end become unmanageable.
Free Bible 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 who speaks without thinking? There's more hope for stupid people than for him!
22Angry people stir up trouble, those with short tempers commit many sins.
Cross References
Proverbs 29:15Discipline and correction provide wisdom, but a son left undisciplined is an embarrassment to his mother.
Luke 7:2A centurion lived there who had a servant he greatly valued who was sick and was about to die.
1 Timothy 5:6But a widow who concentrates on pleasing herself is already dead, even though she's still physically alive.
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 →