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Proverbs 29:21

If someone pampers his servant from youth, he will be a weakling in the end.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Employer;   Master;   Servant;   The Topic Concordance - Masters;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Uprightness;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;   Proverbs, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
A servant pampered from childhood will become a rebel.
Update Bible Version
He that delicately brings up his slave from a child Shall have him become a son at the last.
New Century Version
If you spoil your servants when they are young, they will bring you grief later on.
Webster's Bible Translation
He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him at length become [his] son.
World English Bible
He who pampers his servant from youth Will have him become a son in the end.
Amplified Bible
He who pampers his slave from childhood Will find him to be a son in the end.
English Standard Version
Whoever pampers his servant from childhood will in the end find him his heir.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He that nurschith his seruaunt delicatli fro childhod; schal fynde hym rebel aftirward.
English Revised Version
He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become a son at the last.
Berean Standard Bible
A servant pampered from his youth will bring grief in the end.
Contemporary English Version
Slaves that you treat kindly from their childhood will cause you sorrow.
American Standard Version
He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child Shall have him become a son at the last.
Bible in Basic English
If a servant is gently cared for from his early years, he will become a cause of sorrow in the end.
Complete Jewish Bible
A slave who is pampered from youth will in the end be ungrateful.
Darby Translation
He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child, shall in the end have him as a son.
Easy-to-Read Version
Give your servants everything they want, and they will learn to be wasteful.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become master at the last.
King James Version (1611)
He that delicately bringeth vp his seruant from a child, shall haue him become his sonne at the length.
New Life Bible
He who gives good care to his servant from the time he is young, will in the end find him to be a son.
New Revised Standard
A slave pampered from childhood will come to a bad end.
Geneva Bible (1587)
He that delicately bringeth vp his seruant from youth, at length he will be euen as his sone.
George Lamsa Translation
He who is given to pleasures from his youth will be a servant, and in the end will groan.
Good News Translation
If you give your servants everything they want from childhood on, some day they will take over everything you own.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
He that dealeth tenderly with his servant from childhood, in his after life, shall have him for a son.
Douay-Rheims Bible
He that nourisheth his servant delicately from his childhood, afterwards shall find him stubborn.
Revised Standard Version
He who pampers his servant from childhood, will in the end find him his heir.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He that delicately bryngeth vp his seruaunt from a chylde, shall make hym his maister at length.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Fire is the trial for silver and gold; and a man is tried by the mouth of them that praise him. The heart of the transgressor seeks after mischiefs; but an upright heart seeks knowledge.
Christian Standard Bible®
A servant pampered from his youthwill become arrogant later on.
Hebrew Names Version
He who pampers his servant from youth Will have him become a son in the end.
King James Version
He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length.
Lexham English Bible
He who pampers his servant from childhood, arrogance will be his end.
Literal Translation
He pampering his servant from youth, even afterwards in his days he shall be his successor.
Young's Literal Translation
Whoso is bringing up his servant delicately, from youth, [At] his latter end also he is continuator.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He that delicately bryngeth vp his seruaunt from a childe, shal make him his master at length.
THE MESSAGE
If you let people treat you like a doormat, you'll be quite forgotten in the end.
New American Standard Bible
One who pampers his slave from childhood Will in the end find him to be rebellious.
New King James Version
He who pampers his servant from childhood Will have him as a son in the end.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He who pampers his slave from childhood Will in the end find him to be a son.
Legacy Standard Bible
He who pampers his slave from childhoodWill in the end find him to be arrogant.

Contextual Overview

21 If someone pampers his servant from youth, he will be a weakling in the end.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Genesis 15:3 - born Proverbs 29:15 - General Proverbs 30:23 - an handmaid Luke 7:2 - who Luke 16:3 - I cannot 1 Timothy 5:6 - in pleasure

Cross-References

Genesis 4:1
Now the man had marital relations with his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. Then she said, "I have created a man just as the Lord did!"
Genesis 29:18
Since Jacob had fallen in love with Rachel, he said, "I'll serve you seven years in exchange for your younger daughter Rachel."
Genesis 29:20
So Jacob worked for seven years to acquire Rachel. But they seemed like only a few days to him because his love for her was so great.
Genesis 31:41
This was my lot for twenty years in your house: I worked like a slave for you—fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, but you changed my wages ten times!
Genesis 38:16
He turned aside to her along the road and said, "Come on! I want to have sex with you." (He did not realize it was his daughter-in-law.) She asked, "What will you give me in exchange for having sex with you?"
Judges 15:1
Sometime later, during the wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat as a gift and went to visit his bride. He said to her father, "I want to have sex with my bride in her bedroom!" But her father would not let him enter.
Matthew 1:18
Now the birth of Jesus Christ happened this way. While his mother Mary was engaged to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child,.... In a very tender and affluent way uses him with great familiarity; makes him sit at table, with him, feeds him with dainties, and clothes him in the most handsome manner, as if he was one of his own children:

shall have him become [his] son at the length: he will expect to be used as a son; he will not care to do any servile work, or anything, especially that is hard and laborious; he will be for supplanting the son and heir, and think to inherit all himself; or, however, become proud, haughty, and saucy. Jarchi interprets this of the evil imagination, or the corruption of nature, which is in a man from a child; which, if cherished and not subdued, wilt in the issue rule over a man: and some apply it to the body; which, if delicately pampered, and not kept under, will be master of the soul, instead of servant to it, and its members be instruments of unrighteousness.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Son - The Hebrew word occurs here only and is therefore of doubtful meaning. The favored slave, petted and pampered from boyhood, will claim at last the privilege, perhaps the inheritance, of sonship.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 29:21. He that delicately bringeth up his servant — Such persons are generally forgetful of their obligations, assume the rights and privileges of children, and are seldom good for any thing.


 
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