A servant will not be corrected with words. — A slave must be corrected by sterner means; it is only fear of punishment which will move him; “for though he understand, he will not answer,” will not reply to your call, or render obedience to your command. The willing obedience of a son, and the grudging obedience of a slave, are contrasted in Romans 8:15.
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Proverbs 29:19
19 A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not answer.