Proverbs 19:2

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

Desire without knowledge is not good, and one who moves too hurriedly misses the way.

Cross References

2 Kings 4:39

One of them went out into the field to gather herbs; he found a wild vine and gathered from it a lapful of wild gourds, and came and cut them up into the pot of stew, not knowing what they were.

Job 31:5

“If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit—

Proverbs 1:16

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

Proverbs 10:21

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

Proverbs 14:29

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

Proverbs 21:5

The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone 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

The faithful will abound with blessings, but one who is in a hurry to be rich will not go unpunished.

Proverbs 28:22

The miser is in a hurry to get rich and does not know that loss is sure to come.

Proverbs 29:20

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

Ecclesiastes 12:9

Besides being wise, the Teacher also taught the people knowledge, weighing and studying and arranging many proverbs.

Ecclesiastes 7:9

Do not be 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 understanding; therefore he that 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, See, I am laying in Zion a foundation stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation: “One who trusts will not panic.”

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 or me.

Romans 10:2

I can testify that they have a zeal for God, but it is not enlightened.

Philippians 1:9

And this is my prayer, that your love may overflow more and more with knowledge and full insight