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12 If a ruler listens to falsehood,
    all his officials will be wicked.

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12 A ruler listening to a word of falsehood,
    all his officials are wicked.

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19 By mere words slaves are not disciplined,
    for though they understand, they will not give heed.

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19 By words, a servant is not disciplined,
    for he will understand, but there is no giving heed.

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21 A slave pampered from childhood
    will come to a bad end.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 29.21 Vg: Meaning of Heb uncertain

21 He who pampers his servant from childhood,
    arrogance will be his end.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 29:21 Literally “and its/his end will be arrogance”