Proverbs 29:19
It is not possible to correct/discipline servants only by talking to them; they understand what you are saying, but they do not pay attention to it.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not answer.
In Context
Cross References
Job 19:16When I summon my servants, they do not answer; I plead with them to come to help me, but they do not come.
Proverbs 30:22What a slave does who becomes a king, a foolish person eating too much food,
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 29:19
Miscellaneous Maxims. 18 Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he. See here, I. The misery of the people that want a settled ministry: Where there is no vision, no prophet to expound the law, no priest or Levite to teach the good knowledge of the Lord, no means of grace, the word of the Lord is scarce, there is no open vision ( 1 Sam. iii. 1 ), where it is so the people perish; the word has many significations, any of which will apply here. 1. The people are made naked,… Read the whole commentary →