Verse 19
19. A servant A bondman, a slave. The language is applied to such only as are “under the yoke,” over whom the master has, or claims, the right of corporal punishment.
Will not be corrected by words The proverb implies that where involuntary servitude exists, obedience and submission cannot be enforced by words alone. And such seems to have been the judgment of all men who have had to deal with it. All slave codes give the power of corporal punishment to the master; and even the most humane of masters acknowledge it to be sometimes necessary. Slavery takes away the ordinary motives for labour and faithfulness on the part of the servant, and the motive of fear needs to be appealed to in a greater degree. Moreover, slavery usually keeps its victims in a state of ignorance and degradation; mentally, in the state of children; and physically, in the condition of brutes, to be bought and sold, and otherwise treated without respect to their feelings, wishes, or interests.
Not answer That is, in action will not obey.
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