OLD TESTAMENT

Proverbs 19:2

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It isn’t good to have zeal without knowledge, nor to be hasty with one’s feet and miss the way.

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Verse 2. Soul. Wholesome and spiritual. Hebrew “the soul or life is not good.”—Stumble. “The more I make haste, the less I advance,” said Plato; (Rep. 7.) and Augustus often repeated; Sat cito, si sat benè. Sueton.

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