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12 If a (A)ruler pays attention to a lying word,
All his ministers become wicked.

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12 If a (A)ruler pays attention to falsehood,
All his ministers become wicked.

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19 A slave will not be corrected by words alone;
For though he understands, there will be no answer.

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19 A slave will not be instructed by words alone;
For though he understands, there will be no response.

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21 He who pampers his slave from childhood
Will in the end find him to be [a]arrogant.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 29:21 Or a son

21 He who pampers his slave from childhood
Will in the end find him to be a son.

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