Sirach 33:26-28

Good News Translation

²⁶ You can use a harness and yoke to tame an animal, and a slave can be tortured in the stocks. ²⁷ Keep him at work, and don't let him be idle; idleness can only teach him how to make trouble. ²⁸ Work is what he needs. If he won't obey you, put him in chains.