Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Proverbs 19:2
Read, 'Also, desire without knowledge,' etc. Desires must be controlled by knowledge. The hasty in action will miss his mark. 'While the discreet advise, the fool doth his business.'
Read, 'Also, desire without knowledge,' etc. Desires must be controlled by knowledge. The hasty in action will miss his mark. 'While the discreet advise, the fool doth his business.'
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...
CHAPTER 19:1-19 FURTHER PROVERBS ON PERSONAL INSTRUCTION One may be poor, but walking in integrity, he is far ahead of him who is perverse in his lips and is a fool. Then we find proverbs about frett...
PROVERBS 19. A shrewd turn of sarcasm in Proverbs 19:3 suggests the attitude of practical wisdom towards that questioning of the moral government of the world which we find in Job. PROVERBS 19:1. FOO...
NOT GOOD. Illustrations: Syrians (1 Kings 20:28); Jews (Isaiah 5:12; Isaiah 5:13); Saul (1 Timothy 1:13.
that _the soul_be _without knowledge_ If with R.V. text we retain this rendering, we may well recognise in the rendering of R.V. marg. a true explanation of the proverb: "Desire without knowledge is...
DISCOURSE: 798 DIVINE KNOWLEDGE MOST DESIRABLE Proverbs 19:2. _That the soul be without knowledge, it is not good_. THERE is nothing so highly prized as knowledge. No pains are deemed too great for t...
ALSO, THAT THE SOUL BE, &C.— The Chaldee renders this, _He that knoweth not his soul, it is not good for him; he that hasteth with his feet into evil is a sinner._ Solomon in this verse, says Bishop P...
CHAPTER 19 TEXT Proverbs 19:1-10 1. Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity Than he that is perverse in his lips and is a fool. 2. Also, that the soul be without knowledge is not good;...
Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth. ALSO, (THAT) THE SOUL BE WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE, (IT IS) NOT GOOD. "The soul" is a choice gift of God...
19:2 person (g-4) Lit. 'soul.' Others, 'desire.' steps. (h-20) Or 'Sins.'...
In these verses, Solomon discusses things that are wrong. Many wrong things happen in this world....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 19 V1 A man may be poor but he still remains honest. He is better than the fool, whose words are false....
Solomon describes a man who is in a hurry. But the man acts without sufficient knowledge. He will cause troubles and problems. All his actions will be wrong actions. All his decisions will be wrong de...
ALSO, THAT THE SOUL BE WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE IS NOT GOOD. — Ignorance is bad, as well as folly. HE THAT HASTETH WITH HIS FEET SINNETH. — Haste without knowledge misses the mark aimed at. (See above on Pr...
גַּ֤ם בְּ לֹא ־דַ֣עַת נֶ֣פֶשׁ לֹא ־טֹ֑וב
CHAPTER 20 HUMAN FREEDOM "The foolishness of man subverteth his way; And his heart fretteth against the Lord."- Proverbs 19:3 THERE is such a valuable expansion and commentary on this proverb in th...
Verse Proverbs 19:7. This is the only case in this first collection of proverbs in which we find three clauses. It is certainly most likely that the third clause is incomplete. Something has been lost...
_Soul. Wholesome and spiritual. Hebrew, "the soul or life is not good." --- Stumble. "The more I make haste, the less I advance," said Plato; (Republic 7.) and Augustus often repeated; Sat cito, si sa...
Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool. Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet sinne...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31. In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be followe...
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;...
Also, [that] the soul [be] without knowledge, [it is] not good; and he that hasteth with [his] feet sinneth. Ver. 2. _Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good._] An ignorant man is a...
_Better is the poor_ Hebrew, רשׁ, _a poor man; that walketh in his integrity_ Who is upright in his words and actions; he has a better character, is in a better condition, is more beloved, lives to be...
V. 2. ALSO, THAT THE SOUL BE WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE, where the soul lacks knowledge and insight, IT IS NOT GOOD, for that fact keeps it from all energy and progress; AND HE THAT HASTETH WITH HIS FEET, goin...
THE SOUL; which is the principal cause and director of all men's actions. WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE; without wisdom or prudence to discern his way, and what and how he ought to act in his several cases and co...
Proverbs 19:2 good H2896 soul H5315 knowledge H1847 sins H2398 (H8802) hastens H213 (H8801) feet H7272...
Proverbs 19:2 The evils of ignorance compared with the evils of blindness. I. To be blind is, first, to be destitute of the pleasure of the enjoyment of light, and to be afflicted with the pain of d...
CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: If we keep God's Word, God's Word will keep us from all things that are really hurtful. Those who despise the ways of His W...
Proverbs 19:1. _Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity,_ in simplicity and honesty of heart, than a fool whose tongue is perverse, and whose body is swoln with corpulency. The contrast of me...
_Also that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good._ THE ADVANTAGES OF KNOWLEDGE TO THE LOWER CLASSES I. The utility of knowledge in general. The extent to which we have the faculty of acquirin...
DON'T HURRY He that hasteth with his feet sinneth. Proverbs 19:2. “He that hasteth with his feet sinneth.” That is a strange text, is it not? And perhaps you don't see much sense in it. But if you h...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 19:2 WHOEVER MAKES HASTE WITH HIS FEET likely refers to an impulsive person who acts without thinking or planning. He has a DESIRE to get somewhere but does not have sufficie...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 19:2. SINNETH, literally “goeth astray.” Delitzsch reads the last clause, “_He who hasteneth with the legs after it goeth astray_.” PROVERBS 19:3. PERVERTETH, rather “overt...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 19:1 BETTER IS THE POOR THAT WALKTH IN HIS INTEGRITY. The word for "poor" is, here and in Proverbs 19:7, Proverbs 19:22, _rash, _which signifie
Better is the poor that walks in his integrity [or in honesty], than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool. Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with...
Ecclesiastes 12:9; Ecclesiastes 7:9; Hosea 4:6; Isaiah 27:11; Is
Hasteth — That rashly and headily rushes into actions....