Other translations
New Catholic Bible
If you work your slave hard, you will have rest for yourself; if you allow his hands to be idle, he will seek his freedom.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Set your slave to work, and you will find rest; leave his hands idle, and he will seek liberty.
Good News Translation®
You can use a harness and yoke to tame an animal, and a slave can be tortured in the stocks.
Wycliffe Bible
A yoke and bridle bow down an hard neck; and busy workings bow down a servant. Torment and stocks to (or for) an evil-willed servant;
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Yoke and thong will bow the neck, and for a wicked servant there are racks and tortures.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Set your slaves to work, and you will find rest; leave their hands idle, and they will seek liberty.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
Set your slave to work, and you will find rest; leave his hands idle, and he will seek liberty.
Common English Bible © 2011
Set them to work with discipline, and you will have leisure; let their hands be idle, and they will seek freedom.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Make a slave work, and he will look for rest; let his hands be idle and he will seek to be free.
Revised Standard Version
Yoke and thong will bow the neck, and for a wicked servant there are racks and tortures.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
Set your slave to work, and you will find rest; leave his hands idle, and he will seek liberty.