Proverbs 29:21
If someone gives his servants everything that they want, starting from when they are young, some day those servants will take from him everything that he owns.
Translation for Translators
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
22Those who quickly become angry cause many arguments, and they also commit many sins.
Cross References
Proverbs 29:15If children are punished/spanked and reproved/warned, they become wise; but if they are allowed to do whatever they want to do, they do things that cause their mothers to be ashamed of them.
Luke 7:2There was a Roman army officer there who had a slave whom he thought highly of. This slave was so sick that he was about to die.
1 Timothy 5:6But widows who just want to have a lot of pleasure are spiritually [MET] dead, although they are 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 →