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Proverbs 19:2

It is dangerous to have zeal without knowledge, and the one who acts hastily makes poor choices.

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Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blindness;   Ignorance;   Prudence;   Rashness;   Thompson Chain Reference - Prudence-Rashness;   Rashness;   The Topic Concordance - Haste;   Knowledge;   Sin;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Prostitution;   Proverbs, Book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Feet;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Enthusiasm without knowledge is no good; haste makes mistakes.
Update Bible Version
Also, without knowledge the soul is not good; And he that hurries with his feet sins.
New Century Version
Enthusiasm without knowledge is not good. If you act too quickly, you might make a mistake.
Webster's Bible Translation
Also, [that] the soul [be] without knowledge, [it is] not good; and he that hasteth with [his] feet sinneth.
World English Bible
It isn't good to have zeal without knowledge; Nor being hasty with one's feet and missing the way.
Amplified Bible
Also it is not good for a person to be without knowledge, And he who hurries with his feet [acting impulsively and proceeding without caution or analyzing the consequences] sins (misses the mark).
English Standard Version
Desire without knowledge is not good, and whoever makes haste with his feet misses his way.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Where is not kunnyng of the soule, is not good; and he that is hasti, in feet hirtith.
English Revised Version
Also, that the soul be without knowledge is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.
Berean Standard Bible
Even zeal is no good without knowledge, and he who hurries his footsteps misses the mark.
Contemporary English Version
Willingness and stupidity don't go well together. If you are too eager, you will miss the road.
American Standard Version
Also, that the soul be without knowledge is not good; And he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.
Bible in Basic English
Further, without knowledge desire is not good; and he who is over-quick in acting goes out of the right way.
Complete Jewish Bible
To act without knowing how you function is not good; and if you rush ahead, you will miss your goal.
Darby Translation
Also that a person be without knowledge is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet maketh false steps.
Easy-to-Read Version
Being excited about something is not enough. You must also know what you are doing. Don't rush into something, or you might do it wrong.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Also, that the soul be without knowledge is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.
King James Version (1611)
Also, that the soule be without knowledge, it is not good, and hee that hasteth with his feete, sinneth.
New Life Bible
It is not good for a person to be without much learning, and he who hurries with his feet rushes into sin.
New Revised Standard
Desire without knowledge is not good, and one who moves too hurriedly misses the way.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For without knowledge the minde is not good, and he that hasteth with his feete, sinneth.
George Lamsa Translation
He who has no knowledge of his own soul, it is not good for him; and he who is hasty with his feet sins.
Good News Translation
Enthusiasm without knowledge is not good; impatience will get you into trouble.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Surely, for the soul to be, without knowledge, is not good, and, he that hasteth with his feet, strayeth.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Where there is no knowledge of the soul, there is no good: and he that is hasty with his feet shall stumble.
Revised Standard Version
It is not good for a man to be without knowledge, and he who makes haste with his feet misses his way.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The desire without discretion is not good: but [as] a man whiche hasteth with his feete offendeth.
Christian Standard Bible®
Even zeal is not good without knowledge,and the one who acts hastily sins.
Hebrew Names Version
It isn't good to have zeal without knowledge; Nor being hasty with one's feet and missing the way.
King James Version
Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.
Lexham English Bible
Also, a life without knowledge is not good, and he who moves quickly with his feet misses the mark.
Literal Translation
Also, without knowledge the soul is not good, and he who hurries with his feet sins.
Young's Literal Translation
Also, without knowledge the soul [is] not good, And the hasty in feet is sinning.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Where no discrecion is, there the soule is not well: and who so is swifte on fote, stombleth hastely.
THE MESSAGE
Ignorant zeal is worthless; haste makes waste.
New American Standard Bible
Also it is not good for a person to be without knowledge, And one who hurries his footsteps errs.
New King James Version
Also it is not good for a soul to be without knowledge, And he sins who hastens with his feet.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Also it is not good for a person to be without knowledge, And he who hurries his footsteps errs.
Legacy Standard Bible
Also it is not good for a person to be without knowledge,And he who hurries his footsteps sins.

Contextual Overview

2 It is dangerous to have zeal without knowledge, and the one who acts hastily makes poor choices.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

that the: Proverbs 10:21, Ecclesiastes 12:9, Isaiah 27:11, Hosea 4:6, John 16:3, Romans 10:2, Philippians 1:9

and: Proverbs 1:16, Proverbs 14:29, Proverbs 21:5, Proverbs 25:8, Proverbs 28:22, Job 31:5, Ecclesiastes 7:9, Isaiah 28:16

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 25:13 - Gird ye 2 Samuel 16:4 - Behold Nehemiah 5:9 - It is not Proverbs 7:7 - void

Cross-References

Genesis 18:4
Let a little water be brought so that you may all wash your feet and rest under the tree.
Genesis 19:17
When they had brought them outside, they said, "Run for your lives! Don't look behind you or stop anywhere in the valley! Escape to the mountains or you will be destroyed!"
Genesis 19:21
"Very well," he replied, "I will grant this request too and will not overthrow the town you mentioned.
Genesis 19:28
He looked out toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of that region. As he did so, he saw the smoke rising up from the land like smoke from a furnace.
Genesis 19:29
So when God destroyed the cities of the region, God honored Abraham's request. He removed Lot from the midst of the destruction when he destroyed the cities Lot had lived in.
Acts 16:15
After she and her household were baptized, she urged us, "If you consider me to be a believer in the Lord, come and stay in my house." And she persuaded us.
Hebrews 13:2
Do not neglect hospitality, because through it some have entertained angels without knowing it.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Also, [that] the soul [be] without knowledge, [it is] not good,.... Without knowledge of things natural and civil, especially without the knowledge of God and Christ, and divine and spiritual things; to be without this is not good, yea, very bad; for men without such knowledge and understanding are, like the beasts that perish, and for lack of it do. Jarchi interprets it, without the law. Or, "to be without the knowledge of the soul is not good" e; so the Targum, Vulgate Latin, and Syriac versions,

"he that knoweth not his soul, it is not good for him;''

that does not know he has a soul, or however takes no more care of it than if he had none; who knows not the worth and value of it, its state and condition, and the danger it is in, and the only way of attaining the salvation of it;

and he that hasteth with [his] feet sinneth; who engages in anything ignorantly and rashly, he misses the mark, and fails in the performance of it, for want of due consideration and care. The Targum is,

"he that is swift with his feet to evil is a sinner;''

whose feet run to evil, to commit robbery, as Aben Ezra; or to shed blood; see Proverbs 1:16.

e So Vatablus; or "without care of it", Schultcns.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 19:2. Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good — Would it not be plainer, as it is more literal, to say, "Also, to be without knowledge, is not good for the soul?" The soul was made for God; and to be without his knowledge, to be unacquainted with him, is not only not good, but the greatest evil the soul can suffer, for it involves all other evils. The Chaldee and Syriac have: "He who knows not his own soul, it is not good to him." "Where no discretion is, there the soul is not well." - Coverdale.

And he that hasteth with his feet sinneth. — And this will be the case with him who is not Divinely instructed. A child does nothing cautiously, because it is uninstructed; a savage is also rash and precipitate, till experience instructs him. A man who has not the knowledge of God is incautious, rash, headstrong, and precipitate: and hence he sinneth-he is continually missing the mark, and wounding his own soul.


 
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