Proverbs 19:2 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

² It is not good for a man to be without knowledge, and he who makes haste with his feet misses his way.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Desire without knowledge is not good, and to be overhasty is to sin and miss the mark.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

² Ignorant desire isn’t good; rushing feet make mistakes.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² Where there is no knowledge of the soul, there is no good. And whoever hurries with his feet will stumble.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Proverbs 19:2 Cross References

2 Kings 4:39

One of them went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine and gathered from it his lap full of wild gourds, and came and cut them up into the pot of pottage, not knowing what they were.

Job 31:5

“If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hastened to deceit;

Proverbs 1:16

for their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.

Proverbs 10:21

The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of sense.

Proverbs 14:29

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverbs 21:5

The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but every one who is hasty comes only to want.

Proverbs 25:8

do not hastily bring into court; for what will you do in the end, when your neighbor puts you to shame?

Proverbs 28:20

A faithful man will abound with blessings, but he who hastens to be rich will not go unpunished.

Proverbs 28:22

A miserly man hastens after wealth, and does not know that want will come upon him.

Proverbs 29:20

Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Ecclesiastes 12:9

Besides being wise, the Preacher also taught the people knowledge, weighing and studying and arranging proverbs with great care.

Ecclesiastes 7:9

Be not quick to anger, for anger lodges in the bosom of fools.

Isaiah 27:11

When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and make a fire of them. For this is a people without discernment; therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, he that formed them will show them no favor.

Isaiah 28:16

therefore thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I am laying in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation: ‘He who believes will not be in haste.’

Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

John 16:3

And they will do this because they have not known the Father, nor me.

Romans 10:2

I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but it is not enlightened.

Philippians 1:9

And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment,