Pamper
December 29, 2022
“Pamper”
Blessings folk!
Well, here is an interesting Proverb…
Pro 29:21
Whoever pampers his servant from childhood
will in the end find him his heir.
ESV
The Hebrew phrase translated “his heir” is uncertain.
We do not know what it means.
Proof?
Read the varied other English translations.
There seems to be two schools of thought…
A pampered servant will eventuate into a “son/heir”
A pampered servant will turn out bad
The son/heir…could be good, could be bad.
ESV above…then…
Pro 29:21
He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child
shall have him become his son at the length.
KJV
Pro 29:21
He who pampers his slave from childhood
Will in the end find him to be a son.
NASB
The bad…
Pro 29:21
A servant pampered from childhood
will become a rebel.
NLT
Pro 29:21
A servant pampered from youth will turn out to be insolent.
NIV
Pro 29:21
A servant pampered from his youth
will become arrogant later on
CSB
Pro 29:21
If someone pampers his servant from youth,
he will be a weakling in the end.
NET
21 He who pampers his servant from childhood,
{arrogance will be his end}.
LEXHAM
It would appear that pampering is not a good thing.
“Pamper” means to “indulge, to treat delicately”.
Yeah.
I’d say “not good”.
Pampering will produce an arrogant, insolent, rebellious weakling…rather as servant or “son”.
Either is not good.
Raise ‘em up in the way they should go…
Pro 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go;
even when he is old he will not depart from it.
ESV