Proverbs 29:20
Strong's Lexicon
Do you see
חָזִ֗יתָ (ḥā·zî·ṯā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2372: 1) to see, perceive, look, behold, prophesy, provide 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to see, behold 1a2) to see as a seer in the ecstatic state 1a3) to see, perceive 1a3a) with the intelligence 1a3b) to see (by experience) 1a3c) to provide

a man
אִ֭ישׁ (’îš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 376: 1) man 1a) man, male (in contrast to woman, female) 1b) husband 1c) human being, person (in contrast to God) 1d) servant 1e) mankind 1f) champion 1g) great man 2) whosoever 3) each (adjective)

who speaks
בִּדְבָרָ֑יו (biḏ·ḇā·rāw)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1697: 1) speech, word, speaking, thing 1a) speech 1b) saying, utterance 1c) word, words 1d) business, occupation, acts, matter, case, something, manner (by extension)

in haste ?
אָ֣ץ (’āṣ)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 213: 1) to press, be pressed, make haste, urge, be narrow 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to press, hasten 1a2) to be pressed, confined, narrow 1a3) to hasten, make haste 1a4) be narrow 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to urge, insist 1b2) to hasten

There is more hope
תִּקְוָ֖ה (tiq·wāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8615: 1) cord 2) hope, expectation 2a) hope 2b) ground of hope 2c) things hoped for, outcome

for a fool
לִכְסִ֣יל (liḵ·sîl)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3684: 1) fool, stupid fellow, dullard, simpleton, arrogant one

than for him.
מִמֶּֽנּוּ׃ (mim·men·nū)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4480: prep 1) from, out of, on account of, off, on the side of, since, above, than, so that not, more than 1a) from (expressing separation), off, on the side of 1b) out of 1b1) (with verbs of proceeding, removing, expelling) 1b2) (of material from which something is made) 1b3) (of source or origin) 1c) out of, some of, from (partitively) 1d) from, since, after (of time) 1e) than, more than (in comparison) 1f) from...even to, both...and, either...or 1g) than, more than, too much for (in comparisons) 1h) from, on account of, through, because (with infinitive) conj 2) that

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Do you see a man who speaks in haste? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Young's Literal Translation
Thou hast seen a man hasty in his words! More hope of a fool than of him.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Do you see a man who speaks too soon? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

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

King James Bible
Seest thou a man [that is] hasty in his words? [there is] more hope of a fool than of him.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
Do you see someone who speaks in haste? There is more hope for a fool than for them.

New Living Translation
There is more hope for a fool than for someone who speaks without thinking.

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

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

King James Bible
Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Do you see a man who speaks too soon? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

International Standard Version
Do you see a man who speaks hastily? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

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

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

English Revised Version
Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.

Young's Literal Translation
Thou hast seen a man hasty in his words! More hope of a fool than of him.
















Cross References
James 1:19
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

Proverbs 19:2
Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.

Proverbs 26:12
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.

Proverbs 29:19
A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not answer.

Proverbs 29:21
He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length.

Proverbs 1:1
The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;

Proverbs 29:18
Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.

Proverbs 29:17
Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.

Proverbs 29:22
An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.

Proverbs 29:23
A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.
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