Other translations
New Catholic Bible
Yoke and harness will bow the neck of an ox; for a wicked slave, apply the rack and torture.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Yoke and thong will bow the neck, and for a wicked slave there are racks and tortures.
Good News Translation®
Keep him at work, and don't let him be idle; idleness can only teach him how to make trouble.
Wycliffe Bible
send thou him into working, lest he be idle; for why idleness hath taught much malice.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Put him to work, that he may not be idle, for idleness teaches much evil.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Yoke and strap will bow the neck, and for wicked slaves there are racks and tortures.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
Yoke and thong will bow the neck, and for a wicked slave there are racks and tortures.
Common English Bible © 2011
A yoke and a strap will bend a neck, and there are racks and tortures for a wicked household slave.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
The yoke and harness will bow the neck; and for a wicked slave, punishment in the stocks.
Revised Standard Version
Put him to work, that he may not be idle, for idleness teaches much evil.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
Yoke and thong will bow the neck, and for a wicked slave there are racks and tortures.