“A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not answer.”
Proverbs 29:19 (KJV) |
Proverbs 29:19
From Proverbs 29, in the Book of Proverbs (Old Testament).
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Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.
Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not answer.
Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length.