Proverbs 29:21
If one rear his servant delicately from his youth, then will he at length become as [his] son.
Leeser Tanakh
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
20Seest then a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope for a fool than for him.
22A man of anger stirreth up strife; and a man of fury aboundeth in transgression.
Cross References
Proverbs 29:15The rod and reproof impart wisdom; but a lad abandoned to himself bringeth shame on his mother.
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 →