Proverbs 19:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.

Proverbs 19:2 —

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Cross-References

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Proverbs 21:5
The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.
Philippians 1:9
And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
Proverbs 29:20
Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Ecclesiastes 7:9
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
Isaiah 28:16
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 2)

Two things are here declared to be of bad consequence:—1. Ignorance: To be without the knowledge of the soul is not good, so some read it. Know we not our own selves, our own hearts? A soul without knowledge is not good; it is a great privilege that we have souls, but, if these souls have not knowledge, what the better are we? If man has not understanding, he is as the beasts, Ps. 49:20. An ignora…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

2. The last illustrates the first clause. Rashness, the result of ignorance, brings trouble.