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19 A servant can’t be corrected by words.
    Though he understands, yet he will not respond.

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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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21 He who pampers his servant from youth
    will have him become a son in the end.

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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