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Desire without knowledge is not good,
    and one who moves too hurriedly misses the way.

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The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance,
    but everyone who is hasty comes only to want.(A)

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And this is my prayer, that your love may overflow more and more with knowledge and full insight(A)

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20 Do you see someone who is hasty in speech?
    There is more hope for a fool than for anyone like that.(A)

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For I can testify that they have a zeal for God, but it is not based on knowledge.(A)

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And they will do this because they have not known the Father or me.(A)

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My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge!
    Because you have rejected knowledge,
    I reject you from being a priest to me;
and since you have forgotten the law of your God,
    I also will forget your children.(A)

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16 therefore thus says the Lord God,
“See, I am laying[a] in Zion a foundation stone,
    a tested stone,
a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation:
    ‘One who trusts will not panic.’(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 28.16 Q mss Compare Syr Tg: MT he laid

20 The faithful will abound with blessings,
    but one who is in a hurry to be rich will not go unpunished.(A)

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Epilogue

Besides being wise, the Teacher also taught the people knowledge, weighing and studying and arranging many proverbs.(A)

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Do not be quick to anger,
    for anger lodges in the bosom of fools.(A)

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22 The miser is in a hurry to get rich
    and does not know that loss is sure to come.

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    do not hastily bring into court,
for[a] what will you do in the end,
    when your neighbor puts you to shame?(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 25.8 Cn: Heb or else

29 Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding,
    but one who has a hasty temper exalts folly.(A)

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16 for their feet run to evil,
    and they hurry to shed blood.(A)

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21 The lips of the righteous feed many,
    but fools die for lack of sense.

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11 When its boughs are dry, they are broken;
    women come and make a fire of them.
For this is a people without understanding;
    therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them;
    he who formed them will show them no favor.(A)

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“If I have walked with falsehood,
    and my foot has hurried to deceit—(A)

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