Proverbs 29:19 - Easy To Read Version

¹⁹ A servant won’t learn a lesson if you only talk to him. That servant may understand your words but he won’t obey.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ A servant will not be corrected by words: For though he understand he will not answer.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ A servant will not be corrected by words alone; for though he understands, he will not answer [the master who mistreats him].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ A servant will not be corrected by words; For though he understand, he will not give heed.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ Servants aren’t disciplined by words; they might understand, but they don’t respond.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ A servant cannot be taught by words, because he understands what you say, but he disdains to respond.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁹ A slave will not be corrected by words: because he understandeth what thou sayest, and will not answer.

Proverbs 29:19 Tagairtí Cros

Job 19:16

I call for my servant,\par but he does not answer.\par Even if I beg for help,\par my servant will not answer.\par

Proverbs 26:3

You have to whip a horse. You have to put a bridle on a mule. And you have to beat a fool.

Proverbs 29:18

If a nation is not guided by God, then that nation will not have peace. But the nation that obeys God’s law will be happy.

Proverbs 29:20

If a person speaks without thinking, there is no hope for him. There is more hope for a fool than for the person who speaks without thinking.

Proverbs 30:22

A servant that becomes a king, a foolish person that has everything he needs,