Proverbs 29 · Verse 19

Proverbs 29:19

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

Proverbs 29:19, King James Version

Proverbs 29:19 in other translations

BSB	A servant cannot be corrected by words alone; though he understands, he will not respond.
WEB	A servant can’t be corrected by words. Though he understands, yet he will not respond.
ASV	A servant will not be corrected by words; For though he understand, he will not give heed.
YLT	By words a servant is not instructed though he understand, And there is nothing answering.
DARBY	A servant is not corrected by words: he understandeth indeed, but he will not answer.
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.
Webster	A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understandeth, he will not answer.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

19. A servant--who lacks good principle. corrected--or discovered. will not answer--that is, will not obey.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

Here is an unprofitable, slothful, wicked servant; one that serves not from conscience, or love, but from fear.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

בִּ֭דְבָרִיםBid.va.rimby wordsH1697

לֹא\־lo'-notH3808

יִוָּ֣סֶרyi.Va.serhe will let himself be instructedH3256

עָ֑בֶד'A.veda slaveH5650

כִּֽי\־ki-forH3588

יָ֝בִ֗יןya.Vinhe will understandH995

וְאֵ֣יןve.'Einand there notH369

מַעֲנֶֽה\׃ma.'a.Neh[will be one who] answersH6030

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Job 19:16
I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
Proverbs 26:3
A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool’s back.
Proverbs 30:22
For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

servant.
26:3; 30:22
though.
Job 19:16

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Proverbs 29:18
Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
Proverbs 29:19
A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not answer.
Proverbs 29:20
Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	El siervo no se corregirá con palabras: porque entiende, mas no corresponde.
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	Un serviteur n’est pas corrigé par des paroles; car il comprend, mais il ne répond pas.
German Elberfelder 1871	Durch Worte wird ein Knecht nicht zurechtgewiesen; denn er versteht, aber er folgt nicht.
Latin Clementine Vulgate	Servus verbis non potest erudiri, quia quod dicis intelligit, et respondere contemnit.