| Proverbs 29:19 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | A slave will not be instructed by words alone; For though he understands, there will be no response. (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | A slave cannot be disciplined with words. He will not respond, though he may understand.(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not answer. |
| ASV: | A servant will not be corrected by words; For though he understand, he will not give heed. |
| BBE: | A servant will not be trained by words; for though the sense of the words is clear to him, he will not give attention. |
| DBY: | A servant is not corrected by words: he understandeth indeed, but he will not answer. |
| ERV: | A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not give heed. |
| JPS: | A servant will not be corrected by words; for though he understand, there will be no response. |
| WBS: | A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understandeth, he will not answer. |
| WEB: | A servant can't be corrected by words. Though he understands, yet he will not respond. |
| YLT: | By words a servant is not instructed though he understand, And there is nothing answering. |
| Proverbs 29:19 Cross References |
| XREF: | Proverbs 29:18 Where there is no vision, the people are unrestrained, But happy is he who keeps the law.
Proverbs 29:20 Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him. (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| GSB: | 29:19 A {e} servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understandeth he will not answer.
(e) He who is of a servile and rebellious nature. |
| WES: | 29:19 A servant - Who is so not only in condition, but also in the temper of his mind, disingenuous, and stubborn. Words - By mere words. Tho' - Though he know thy mind, and his own duty. |
| MHC: | 29:19. Here is an unprofitable, slothful, wicked servant; one that serves not from conscience, or love, but from fear. 20. When a man is self-conceited, rash, and given to wrangling, there is more hope of the ignorant and profligate. 21. Good usage to a servant does not mean indulgence, which would ruin even a child. The body is a servant to the soul; those that humour it, and are over-tender of it, will find it forget its place. 22. An angry, passionate disposition makes men provoking to one another, and provoking to God. 23. Only those who humble themselves shall be exalted and established. 24. The receiver is as bad as the thief. 25. Many are ashamed to own Christ now; and he will not own them in the day of judgment. But he that trusts in the Lord will be saved from this snare. |
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