Other translations
New Catholic Bible
To a donkey belong fodder, the stick, and burdens; to slaves belong bread, discipline, and work.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Fodder and a stick and burdens for a donkey; bread and discipline and work for a slave.
Good News Translation®
If you make your slave work, you can set your mind at ease. If you don't keep him busy, he will be looking for freedom.
Wycliffe Bible
He worketh in, or under, chastising, and seeketh to have rest; slake or slack thou (thine) hands to him, and he seeketh freedom.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Set your slave to work, and you will find rest; leave his hands idle, and he will seek liberty.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Fodder and a stick and burdens for a donkey; bread and discipline and work for a slave.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
Fodder and a stick and burdens for a donkey; bread and discipline and work for a slave.
Common English Bible © 2011
Fodder, a rod, and burdens for donkeys; bread, discipline, and work for household slaves.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Fodder and whip and loads for a donkey; food, correction and work for a slave.
Revised Standard Version
Set your slave to work, and you will find rest; leave his hands idle, and he will seek liberty.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
Fodder and a stick and burdens for a donkey; bread and discipline and work for a slave.