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Proverbs 29:19

American Standard Version

A servant will not be corrected by words; For though he understand, he will not give heed.

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Proverbs 29:19 in other translations

A servant can’t be corrected by words.
Though he understands, yet he will not respond.

Proverbs 29:19 · World English Bible

Proverbs 29:19 in context

  1. 17Correct thy son, and he will give thee rest; Yea, he will give delight unto thy soul.
  2. 18Where there is no vision, the people cast off restraint; But he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
  3. 19A servant will not be corrected by words; For though he understand, he will not give heed.
  4. 20Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? There is more hope of a fool than of him.
  5. 21He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child Shall have him become a son at the last.