Proverbs 29:21
Whoever is bringing up his servant delicately, from youth, || [At] his latter end he is also continuator.
Literal Standard 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
20You have seen a man hasty in his words! More hope of a fool than of him.
22An angry man stirs up contention, || And a furious man is multiplying transgression.
Cross References
Proverbs 29:15A rod and reproof give wisdom, || And a youth let away is shaming his mother.
Luke 7:2and a certain centurion’s servant being ill, was about to die, who was much valued by him,
1 Timothy 5:6but she given to luxury [while] living has died;
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 →