Proverbs 29:20 - Tree of Life Version

²⁰ Do you see someone hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? There is more hope of a fool than of him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a [self-confident] fool than for him.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? There is more hope of a fool than of him.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Do you see people who are quick to speak? There is more hope for fools than for them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ Have you seen a man rushing to speak? Foolishness has more hope than his correction.

Proverbs 29:20 Tagairtí Cros

Proverbs 14:29

One who is slow to anger shows great understanding, but a quick-tempered one exalts folly.

Proverbs 19:2

Zeal without knowledge is not good, or to act hastily and miss the way.

Proverbs 21:5

Plans of the diligent surely lead to gain, but all who are hasty come only to loss.

Proverbs 26:12

Do you see one wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than him.

Proverbs 29:11

A fool gives full vent to his temper, but a wise man holds it back.

Proverbs 29:19

A servant cannot be corrected by words, for though he understands, he will not respond.

Proverbs 29:21

If someone pampers his slave from childhood in the end he will be ungrateful.

Ecclesiastes 5:2

As a dream comes with excessive burdens so a fool’s voice with too many words.

James 1:19

Know this, my dear brothers and sisters: let every person be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger—