Proverbs 29:21
He that pampers his eved from youth up 1 shall have him as his ben at the acharit (end). 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
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
Cross References
Proverbs 29:15The shevet (rod) and tokhakhat (reproof) give chochmah, 1 but a na'ar (child) left to himself bringeth immo to shame. 1
Luke 7:2Now a certain eved of a centurion, an eved dear to him, was having a machla (illness) and was near mavet.
1 Timothy 5:6But the one living in ahavat ta'anugot (hedonism) has died 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 →