Sirach 33:26–33

²⁶He worketh under correction, and seeketh to rest: let his hands be idle, and he seeketh liberty.

²⁷The yoke and the thong bend a stiff neck, and continual labours bow a slave.

²⁸Torture and fetters are for a malicious slave: send him to work, that he be not idle:

²⁹For idleness hath taught much evil.

³⁰Set him to work: for so it is fit for him. And if he be not obedient, bring him down with fetters, but be not excessive towards any one, and do no grievous thing without judgment.

³¹If thou have a faithful servant, let him be to thee as thy own soul: treat him as a brother: because in the blood of thy soul thou hast gotten him.

³²If thou hurt him unjustly, he will run away:

³³And if he rise up and depart, thou knowest not whom to ask, and in what way to seek him.