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19 By mere words servants are not disciplined,
    for though they understand, they will not give heed.
20 Do you see someone who is hasty in speech?
    There is more hope for a fool than for anyone like that.
21 A slave pampered from childhood
    will come to a bad end.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 29:21 Vg: Meaning of Heb uncertain

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