Proverbs 29:19

A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not answer.

A servant (a slave in spirit, not a free son of God, enslaved to lust, who does no duty from love, but only when driven by fear, John 8:34; ; ).

Will not be corrected by words (but only by stripes, );

For though he understand (what you say), he will not answer - to your call, by obeying your command. He does not in act answer to your wishes. Contrast ,