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Do you seeחָזִיתָa manאִישׁhastyאָץin his words?בִּדְבָרָיוThere is more hopeתִּקְוָהfor a senseless manלִכְסִילthan for him.מִמֶּנּוּ
Proverbs 29:20
Study it in the app“Do you see a man hasty in his words? There is more hope for a senseless man than for him.”
There is more hope for a fool than for someone hasty in wordsThe Tongue
With the Hebrew beneath
Proverbs 29:20, word by word
- Do you seeחָזִיתָchazita
gaze
To fix one's gaze on something or someone, behold it.
Where else “chazita” appears- a manאִישׁish
man
An adult male person; also each man of a people, a trade or a place.
Where else “ish” appears- hastyאָץats
hurry
To do something too fast.
Where else “ats” appears- in his wordsדְבָרָיdevaray
word
What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.
Where else “devaray” appears- There is more hopeתִּקְוָהtikva
hope
What one hopes for, and the reason to hope.
Where else “tikva” appears- for a senseless manכְסִילchesil
senseless, fool
Fool: not someone who knows little, but someone who despises wisdom and trusts in himself.
Where else “chesil” appears
The context
19By words a slave is not corrected, for he understands, but there is no response.
20 · This verse (above)
21Whoever pampers his slave from youth, and in his end he will be an heir.