Proverbs 29:21
He that nourisheth his servant delicately from childhood, shall find him (a) rebel afterward. (He who delicately careth for his servant from childhood, shall find him to be rebellious later.)
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
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 29:15A rod and chastising shall give wisdom; but a child, that is left to his own will, shameth his mother.
Luke 7:2But a servant of a centurion, that was precious to him, was sick, and drawing to the death.
1 Timothy 5:6For she that is living in delights, is dead [in (her) soul].
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 →