◄ Proverbs 29:20 ►
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Good News Translation
There is more hope for a stupid fool than for someone who speaks without thinking.

New Revised Standard Version
Do you see someone who is hasty in speech? There is more hope for a fool than for anyone like that.

Contemporary English Version
There is more hope for a fool than for someone who speaks without thinking.

New American Bible
Do you see someone hasty in speech? There is more hope for a fool!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Hast thou seen a man hasty to speak? folly is rather to be looked for, than his amendment.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hast thou seen a man hasty to speak? folly is rather to be looked for, than his amendment.

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Proverbs 29:11 A fool uttereth all his mind: a wise man deferreth, and keepeth it till afterwards.

Ecclesiastes 5:2 Speak not any thing rashly, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter a word before God. For God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.

James 1:19 You know, my dearest brethren. And let every man be swift to hear, but slow to speak and slow to anger.

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Proverbs 14:29 He that is patient, is governed with much wisdom: but he that is impatient, exalteth his folly.

Proverbs 21:5 The thoughts of the industrious always bring forth abundance: but every sluggard is always in want.

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Proverbs 26:12 Hast thou seen a man wise in his own conceit? there shall be more hope of a fool than of him.

Context
The Stiff-Necked will Be Destroyed
…19A slave will not be corrected by words: because he understandeth what thou sayest, and will not answer. 20Hast thou seen a man hasty to speak? folly is rather to be looked for, than his amendment.21He that nourisheth his servant delicately from his childhood, afterwards shall find him stubborn.…
Cross References
James 1:19
You know, my dearest brethren. And let every man be swift to hear, but slow to speak and slow to anger.

Proverbs 19:2
Where there is no knowledge of the soul, there is no good: and he that is hasty with his feet shall stumble.

Proverbs 26:12
Hast thou seen a man wise in his own conceit? there shall be more hope of a fool than of him.

Proverbs 29:19
A slave will not be corrected by words: because he understandeth what thou sayest, and will not answer.

Proverbs 29:21
He that nourisheth his servant delicately from his childhood, afterwards shall find him stubborn.

Proverbs 29:19
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