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New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Have you met a person who is quick to answer? There is more hope for a fool than for him. King James Bible
Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him. Jump to Previous Occurrence
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Fool Foolish Haste Hasty Hope Quick Seest Speaks Tongue Words Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary Verse 20 Solomon here shows that there is little hope of bringing a man to wisdom that is hasty either, 1. Through rashness and inconsideration: Seest thou a man that is hasty in his matters, that is of a light desultory wit, that seems to take a thing quickly, but takes it by the halves, gallops over a book or science, but takes no time to digest it, no time to pause or muse upon a business? There is more hope of making a scholar and a wise man of one that is dull and heavy, and slow in his studies, than of one that has such a mercurial genius and cannot fix. 2. Through pride and conceitedness: Seest thou a man that is forward to speak to every matter that is started, and affects to speak first to it, to open it, and speak last to it, to give judgment upon it, as if he were an oracle? There is more hope of a modest fool, who is sensible of his folly, than of such a self-conceited one. New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org. GOD'S WORD® is a copyrighted work of God's Word to the Nations. Quotations are used by permission. Copyright 1995 by God's Word to the Nations. All rights reserved. Alphabetical: a Do fool for haste hasty him his hope in is man more see speaks than There who words you Bible Browser | 
