Proverbs 29:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

Son - The Hebrew word occurs here only and is therefore of doubtful meaning. The favored slave, petted and pampered from boyhood, will claim at last the privilege, perhaps the inheritance, of sonship.

Proverbs 29:21

21 He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length.