Proverbs 29:21
He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length.
King James Version
In Context
20Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
22An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.
Cross References
Proverbs 29:15The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
Luke 7:2And a certain centurion’s servant, who was dear unto him, was sick, and ready to die.
1 Timothy 5:6But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.
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 →