18 Where (A)there is no prophetic vision the people (B)cast off restraint,[a]
    but blessed is he who (C)keeps the law.
19 By mere words a servant is not disciplined,
    for though he understands, he will not respond.
20 Do you see a man who is hasty in his words?
    (D)There is more hope for a fool than for him.
21 Whoever pampers his servant from childhood
    will in the end find him his heir.[b]
22 (E)A man of wrath stirs up strife,
    and one given to anger causes much transgression.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 29:18 Or the people are discouraged
  2. Proverbs 29:21 The meaning of the Hebrew word rendered his heir is uncertain

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