20Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
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Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 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 mor…
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