Teks -- Proverbs 19:1-2 (NET)

19:1 Better is a poor person who walks in his integrity than one who is perverse in his speech and is a fool. 19:2 It is dangerous to have zeal without knowledge, and the one who acts hastily makes poor choices.

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Wesley: Pro 19:2 - Hasteth

That rashly and headily rushes into actions.

JFB: Pro 19:1

(Pro. 19:1-29)

(Compare Pro 28:6). "Rich" for fool here. Integrity is better than riches (Pro 15:16-17; Pro 16:8).

JFB: Pro 19:2

The last illustrates the first clause. Rashness, the result of ignorance, brings trouble.

Clarke: Pro 19:1 - Better is the poor

Better is the poor - The upright poor man is always to be preferred to the rich or self-sufficient fool.

Clarke: Pro 19:2 - Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good

Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good - Would it not be plainer, as it is more literal, to say, "Also, to be without knowledge, is not good for the soul?"The soul was made for God; and to be without his knowledge, to be unacquainted with him, is not only not good, but the greatest evil the soul can suffer, for it involves all other evils. The Chaldee and Syriac have: "He who knows not his own soul, it is not good to him.""Where no discretion is, there the soul is not well."- Coverdale

Clarke: Pro 19:2 - And he that hasteth with his feet sinneth

And he that hasteth with his feet sinneth - And this will be the case with him who is not Divinely instructed. A child does nothing cautiously, because it is uninstructed; a savage is also rash and precipitate, till experience instructs him. A man who has not the knowledge of God is incautious, rash, headstrong, and precipitate: and hence he sinneth - he is continually missing the mark, and wounding his own soul.

TSK: Pro 19:1 - Better // perverse

Better : Pro 19:22, Pro 12:26, Pro 15:16, Pro 16:8, Pro 28:6; Psa 37:26; Mat 16:26; Jam 2:5, Jam 2:6

perverse : 1Sa 25:17, 1Sa 25:25; Isa 59:3; Mat 12:31-34

TSK: Pro 19:2 - that the // and

that the : Pro 10:21; Ecc 12:9; Isa 27:11; Hos 4:6; Joh 16:3; Rom 10:2; Phi 1:9

and : Pro 1:16, Pro 14:29, Pro 21:5, Pro 25:8, Pro 28:22; Job 31:5; Ecc 7:9; Isa 28:16

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Poole: Pro 19:1 - That walketh in his integrity // That is perverse in his lips // Is a fool

That walketh in his integrity who is upright in his words and actions.

That is perverse in his lips that useth to speak wickedly, which proceeds from a wicked heart, and is usually attended with an evil life.

Is a fool is a hypocrite, or a wicked man, for this is opposed to the upright man in the former clause; yea, though he be rich, which is implied from the same clause.

Poole: Pro 19:2 - The soul // Without knowledge // It is not good // That hasteth with his feet

The soul which is the principal cause and director of all men’ s actions.

Without knowledge without wisdom or prudence to discern his way, and what and how he ought to act in his several cases and concernments.

It is not good it is very evil and pernicious.

That hasteth with his feet that rashly and headily rusheth into actions without serious consideration. So two vices are here censured, the want of knowledge, and the neglect or disuse of knowledge in a man’ s actions.

Haydock: Pro 19:1 - Arm-pit // Mouth

Arm-pit. Or Hebrew tsallachath, "in the pot," out of which he eats; which shews his negligence. ---

Mouth, to eat. This hyperbole indicates that he is too lazy to take the necessary sustenance, chap. xxvi. 15. (Calmet) ---

Septuagint, "in his breast unjustly. Neither will he bring them to his mouth." (Haydock) ---

He will bestow nothing, and shall reap no benefit from his avarice. (St. Bernard) ---

He will not practise what he teaches. (St. Gregory, Mor. xii. 10.)

Haydock: Pro 19:1 - Rich

Rich, is not in Hebrew, Septuagint, Complutensian, or St. Jerome. (Calmet) ---

But as there is not antithesis between a poor man and a fool, it ought to be inserted, as it is in the Syriac, which reads, "than he who is perverse in his ways, though he be rich." The Manuscript 2 confirms "ways." (Kennicott)

Haydock: Pro 19:2 - Soul // Stumble

Soul. Wholesome and spiritual. Hebrew, "the soul or life is not good." ---

Stumble. "The more I make haste, the less I advance," said Plato; (Republic 7.) and Augustus often repeated; Sat cito, si sat bene. (Suetonius)

Gill: Pro 19:1 - Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity // than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool

Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity,.... In the uprightness of his heart before God and men; who is sincere in the worship of God, and in the profession of his name, and walks in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless; and is upright, harmless, and inoffensive in his conversation with men; and studies to exercise a conscience void of offence to both, and continues herein. A man may be a poor man with respect to worldly things, and yet be rich towards God; may be a truly gracious good man, honest, sincere, and upright in heart and life: and such an one is better

than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool; that is, than a rich man, as the Syriac and Vulgate Latin versions supply it, and as the antithesis requires; "that is perverse in his lips", or "whose ways are perverse", as the Syriac version; that acts the deceitful part both by words and actions towards those that are about him, not being honest and plain hearted as the poor man is; and who uses those beneath him very roughly; and concerning oppression speaks loftily, and lets his tongue run both against God in heaven and man on earth, by which he shows he is a fool: for his riches do not give him wisdom; and his words and actions declare he wants it; men may be poor, and yet wise; and a matt may be rich, and yet a fool: or is confident ^d; that is, trusts in his riches, and is opposed to a poor man, so R. Saadiah Gaon. This verse and Pro 19:2 are not in the Septuagint and Arabic versions.

Gill: Pro 19:2 - Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good // and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth

Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good,.... Without knowledge of things natural and civil, especially without the knowledge of God and Christ, and divine and spiritual things; to be without this is not good, yea, very bad; for men without such knowledge and understanding are, like the beasts that perish, and for lack of it do. Jarchi interprets it, without the law. Or, "to be without the knowledge of the soul is not good" ^e; so the Targum, Vulgate Latin, and Syriac versions,

"he that knoweth not his soul, it is not good for him;''

that does not know he has a soul, or however takes no more care of it than if he had none; who knows not the worth and value of it, its state and condition, and the danger it is in, and the only way of attaining the salvation of it;

and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth; who engages in anything ignorantly and rashly, he misses the mark, and fails in the performance of it, for want of due consideration and care. The Targum is,

"he that is swift with his feet to evil is a sinner;''

whose feet run to evil, to commit robbery, as Aben Ezra; or to shed blood; see Pro 1:16.