SEV Biblia, Chapter 29:21
¶ El que regala a su siervo desde su niñez, a la postre será su hijo.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Proverbs 29:21
Verse 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.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 21. He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child , etc.] 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.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 21 - Good usage to a servant does not mean indulgence, which would ruin eve a child. The body is a servant to the soul; those that humour it, an are over-tender of it, will find it forget its place.
Original Hebrew
מפנק 6445 מנער 5290 עבדו 5650 ואחריתו 319 יהיה 1961 מנון׃ 4497
