Proverbs 29:21 A servant pampered from youth will turn out to be insolent.

◄ Proverbs 29:21 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
A servant pampered from youth will turn out to be insolent.

English Standard Version
Whoever pampers his servant from childhood will in the end find him his heir.

New American Standard Bible
He who pampers his slave from childhood Will in the end find him to be a son.

King James Bible
He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
A slave pampered from his youth will become arrogant later on.

International Standard Version
If you pamper a servant from his childhood, later on he'll become ungrateful.

American Standard Version
He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child Shall have him become a son at the last.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that nourisheth his servant delicately from his childhood, afterwards shall find him stubborn.

Darby Bible Translation
He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child, shall in the end have him as a son.

Young's Literal Translation
Whoso is bringing up his servant delicately, from youth, At his latter end also he is continuator.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

29:19. Here is an unprofitable, slothful, wicked servant; one that serves not from conscience, or love, but from fear. 20. When a man is self-conceited, rash, and given to wrangling, there is more hope of the ignorant and profligate. 21. Good usage to a servant does not mean indulgence, which would ruin even a child. The body is a servant to the soul; those that humour it, and are over-tender of it, will find it forget its place. 22. An angry, passionate disposition makes men provoking to one another, and provoking to God. 23. Only those who humble themselves shall be exalted and established. 24. The receiver is as bad as the thief. 25. Many are ashamed to own Christ now; and he will not own them in the day of judgment. But he that trusts in the Lord will be saved from this snare.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

21. become his son—assume the place and privileges of one.