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Proverbs 29:20

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

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Proverbs 29:20 in other translations

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

Proverbs 29:20 · American Standard Version

Proverbs 29:20 in context

  1. 18Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint;
    but one who keeps the law is blessed.
  2. 19A servant can’t be corrected by words.
    Though he understands, yet he will not respond.
  3. 20Do you see a man who is hasty in his words?
    There is more hope for a fool than for him.
  4. 21He who pampers his servant from youth
    will have him become a son in the end.
  5. 22An angry man stirs up strife,
    and a wrathful man abounds in sin.