20See you a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.


In Context

17 Correct your son, and he shall give you rest; yes, he shall give delight to your soul.

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

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

20 See you a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.

21 He that delicately brings up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length.

22 An angry man stirs up strife, and a furious man abounds in transgression.

Proverbs 29:20 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

29:20Seest thou a man [that is] hasty in his words? [there is] more hope of a fool than of him.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

29:20Do you see a man who speaks in haste? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

29:20Hast thou seen a man hasty to speak? folly is rather to be looked for, than his amendment.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

29:20Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? There is more hope of a fool than of him.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

29:20Hast thou seen a man hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

29:20Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

29:20Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

29:20Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

29:20Thou hast seen a man hasty in his words! More hope of a fool than of him.