Proverbs 29:21
Good News Translation
If you give your servants everything they want from childhood on, some day they will take over everything you own.

New Revised Standard Version
A slave pampered from childhood will come to a bad end.

Contemporary English Version
Slaves that you treat kindly from their childhood will cause you sorrow.

New American Bible
If servants are pampered from childhood they will turn out to be stubborn.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that nourisheth his servant delicately from his childhood, afterwards shall find him stubborn.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He that nourisheth his servant delicately from his childhood, afterwards shall find him stubborn.

Context
The Stiff-Necked will Be Destroyed
20Hast thou seen a man hasty to speak? folly is rather to be looked for, than his amendment. 21He that nourisheth his servant delicately from his childhood, afterwards shall find him stubborn.22A passionate man provoketh quarrels: and he that is easily stirred up to wrath, shall be more prone to sin.…
Cross References
Proverbs 29:20
Hast thou seen a man hasty to speak? folly is rather to be looked for, than his amendment.

Proverbs 29:22
A passionate man provoketh quarrels: and he that is easily stirred up to wrath, shall be more prone to sin.

Proverbs 29:20
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