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Sunday, September 29th, 2024
the Week of Proper 21 / Ordinary 26
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New Living Translation

Proverbs 29:21

A servant pampered from childhood will become a rebel.

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

Legacy Standard Bible
He who pampers his slave from childhoodWill in the end find him to be arrogant.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He who pampers his slave from childhood Will in the end find him to be a son.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He that delicately bryngeth vp his seruaunt from a chylde, shall make hym his maister at length.
Darby Translation
He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child, shall in the end have him as a son.
New King James Version
He who pampers his servant from childhood Will have him as a son in the end.
Literal Translation
He pampering his servant from youth, even afterwards in his days he shall be his successor.
Easy-to-Read Version
Give your servants everything they want, and they will learn to be wasteful.
World English Bible
He who pampers his servant from youth Will have him become a son in the end.
King James Version (1611)
He that delicately bringeth vp his seruant from a child, shall haue him become his sonne at the length.
King James Version
He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length.
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.
Amplified Bible
He who pampers his slave from childhood Will find him to be a son in the end.
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.
Update Bible Version
He that delicately brings up his slave from a child Shall have him become a son at the last.
Webster's Bible Translation
He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him at length become [his] son.
New English Translation
If someone pampers his servant from youth, he will be a weakling in the end.
Contemporary English Version
Slaves that you treat kindly from their childhood will cause you sorrow.
Complete Jewish Bible
A slave who is pampered from youth will in the end be ungrateful.
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.
Hebrew Names Version
He who pampers his servant from youth Will have him become a son in the end.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become master at the last.
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.
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.
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.
New Revised Standard
A slave pampered from childhood will come to a bad end.
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.
Lexham English Bible
He who pampers his servant from childhood, arrogance will be his end.
English Standard Version
Whoever pampers his servant from childhood will in the end find him his heir.
New American Standard Bible
One who pampers his slave from childhood Will in the end find him to be rebellious.
New Century Version
If you spoil your servants when they are young, they will bring you grief later on.
Good News Translation
If you give your servants everything they want from childhood on, some day they will take over everything you own.
Christian Standard Bible®
A slave pampered from his youth will become arrogant later on.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He that nurschith his seruaunt delicatli fro childhod; schal fynde hym rebel aftirward.
Revised Standard Version
He who pampers his servant from childhood, will in the end find him his heir.
Young's Literal Translation
Whoso is bringing up his servant delicately, from youth, [At] his latter end also he is continuator.

Contextual Overview

21 A servant pampered from childhood will become a rebel.

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 Adam had sexual relations with his wife, Eve, and she became pregnant. When she gave birth to Cain, she said, "With the Lord 's help, I have produced a man!"
Genesis 29:18
Since Jacob was in love with Rachel, he told her father, "I'll work for you for seven years if you'll give me Rachel, your younger daughter, as my wife."
Genesis 29:20
So Jacob worked seven years to pay for Rachel. But his love for her was so strong that it seemed to him but a few days.
Genesis 31:41
Yes, for twenty years I slaved in your house! I worked for fourteen years earning your two daughters, and then six more years for your flock. And you changed my wages ten times!
Genesis 38:16
So he stopped and propositioned her. "Let me have sex with you," he said, not realizing that she was his own daughter-in-law. "How much will you pay to have sex with me?" Tamar asked.
Judges 15:1
Later on, during the wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat as a present to his wife. He said, "I'm going into my wife's room to sleep with her," but her father wouldn't let him in.
Matthew 1:18
This is how Jesus the Messiah was born. His mother, Mary, was engaged to be married to Joseph. But before the marriage took place, while she was still a virgin, she became pregnant through the power of 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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