Proverbs 29:21
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He who delicately brings up his slave from a childWill have him become degenerate at the last.[fn]
Footnotes
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Hebrew uncertain; or, will have him become a son (or heir) at the last. For the main-text rendering, see Nili Samet, who argues that מָנוֹן means "degenerate, decadent" ("The Lexical Enigma of מָנוֹן and the Problem of Dating the Hezekian Collection," ZAW 128.3 [2016]: 419-432, doi:10.1515/zaw-2016-0026).