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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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Dangerous Behaviors

19 By mere words a servant will not be corrected;
    even 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 If you pamper a servant from his childhood,
    later on he’ll become ungrateful.

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